Credit unions roll out red carpet
Been down to your friendly neighborhood credit union lately? What are you waiting for? You could find that elusive home loan you been unable to get anywhere else. How’s that again? Credit unions didn’t...
View ArticleChecked credit union interest rates lately?
INFORMA RESEARCH — Credit union rates often beat those for banks when it comes to home, car and personal loans, credit cards and savings and investment accounts. For each product, averages displayed...
View ArticleEconomic protestors’ debit card choices more powerful than bullhorns
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured institutions reported a net income of nearly $29 billion in the second quarter of 2011, but the banking industry is weeping about reams of regulatory...
View ArticleHow to escape debit card fees
Bank of America struck a cord recently when it announced it will charge $5 a month to some customers tapping their own cash with the bank’s debit card. Other banks also plan to impose similar fees on...
View ArticleDump your bank for a better deal
Like most Americans, you probably feel like your bank is taking you to the cleaners. “Get a fair shake, not a shake down,” appropriately reads the headline of Money magazine’s recent article about...
View ArticleA banking guide with more clout than ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Even if you aren’t a member of the Occupy Wall Street band of protestors, chances are, you are thinking about shopping for a new bank or financial services provider because you are fed up with their...
View ArticleBank of America ends debit card fee plans after consumer backlash
CONSUMERS UNION – Following weeks of consumer protest, Bank of America announced today that it is dropping its plan to begin charging consumers a monthly $5 debit card fee. Bank of America’s decision...
View Article‘Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banksta’ vying to become first Occupy Wall Street...
With references to toxic home loans and noxious mortgage-backed securities, video stabs at Wall Street for its role in the Great Recession have been going on since the nation’s economy crashed and...
View ArticleDeadlineNews.Com is real estate news media’s ‘credit union’
DEADLINE NEWSROOM – It’s time to switch your real estate news source. Before ‘Bank Transfer Day,’ before ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and even before the housing market crashed and spawned the Great Recession,...
View ArticleCredit unions offer competitive mortgage rates
Credit unions have become a banking alternative of choice for disgruntled debit card and checking account holders nickled and dimed by fees, but credit unions also hold their own in the mortgage...
View ArticleBanks tightening squeeze on consumers
HSBC offers a zero-interest rate, GM affiliated credit card and after 15 months the rate only jumps to 9.99 percent — provided you don’t hit a financial bump in the road. Make one late payment and your...
View ArticlePew’s ‘Transaction Infraction’ demonstrates how banks reorder transactions to...
A Northern California federal district court found that Wells Fargo's large-to-small posting order for debit card transactions was an unfair and deceptive practice.
View ArticlePew: Confusion, concerns continue about bank practices
Pew’s Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project, found that although almost one-fifth (18 percent) of consumers have incurred an overdraft penalty fee in the last year, their understanding of...
View ArticleDebit card overdraft fees on the rise again
Most banks reorder payments, large banks are flat out raising fees and still others pile on and tier fees, all to squeeze you for as much as they can when you overdraw your debit card or withdraw too...
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