April 19, 2012
SmartMoney.com
In the battle of the plastics, credit cards have lately emerged as the surprise champs, offering fewer fees and better rewards than the typical debit card. But as banks and credit-card companies flood mailboxes with a new round of ...
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April 13, 2012
MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A more than decade-old effort by credit unions to expand into more small-business lending is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, driving worried bankers to step up their congressional lobbying to protect their turf.
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March 29, 2012
WSJ.com
The movement to use local government funds as a battering ram against big banks has gained momentum since the start of the year. Some examples:
March 12, 2012
SmartMoney.com
It isn't fun being a saver these days. The fragile economic recovery, weak housing market and tight lending standards all underscore the need for an ample emergency fund to ride out a job loss, unexpected expense or other temporary ...
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March 7, 2012
WSJ.com
A trip to the automated teller machine won't get any easier next week for millions of vision-impaired Americans who were supposed to get relief from the banks and other companies that operate them.
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February 11, 2012
WSJ.com
Personal loans fell out of favor during the financial crisis. But they are starting to make a comeback at lenders such as Wells Fargo, Discover Financial Services and TD Bank.
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January 30, 2012
WSJ.com
MasterCard Inc. is joining rival Visa Inc. in pushing merchants to upgrade their checkout systems to handle high-tech credit and debit cards that store information inside a computer chip rather than a magnetic stripe, in a move that could ...
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January 23, 2012
WSJ.com
It isn't every day an 11-branch bank in Iowa gets a financial leg up on J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc.
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January 8, 2012
WSJ.com
It's tougher for all borrowers to get a loan for a home purchase or refinancing these days. But many small-business owners are really feeling the pinch.
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December 6, 2011
MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Occupy Wall Street may be turning people off with its tactics, but it’s got nothing on the banks: 75% of Americans agree that the power of corporations and banks should be reduced, according to a WSJ/NBC Poll ...
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December 2, 2011
WSJ.com
Consumers are discovering that it isn't always easy to break up with a big bank. When Ray Parente decided to pull his money out of Wells Fargo & Co. last month, he was told that he would have to discuss the decision with a personal ...
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December 1, 2011
WSJ.com
SAN FRANCISCO—In some ways, the Bay Area's Occupy movement is a cheap imitation of the Wall Street version. Camps are more like parties. There's hip-hop music blasting. The smell of pot smoke is noticeable, and on school days the ...
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November 17, 2011
WSJ.com
WASHINGTON—U.S. banking regulators said they will review a year of quarterly financial reports to determine if a bank is large enough to come under the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's supervision powers, an announcement ...
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November 15, 2011
WSJ.com
Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay a total of $165.5 million to settle claims tied to the sale of mortgage-backed securities to five credit unions, marking the first federal recovery of losses that failed financial ...
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November 12, 2011
WSJ.com
Last Saturday was Bank Transfer Day, a communist plot (or grass-roots effort, depending on who you ask) designed to get folks moving from big, greedy banks to small, fuzzy banks. And all over the city, tellers were busy. One friend, who ...
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