Category Archives: Banking

Banks Start to Make More Loans

Housing remains the banking industry’s Achilles’ heel. Mortgage and home equity loans have fallen more than 6.2 percent since their peak in late 2007 and early 2008, according to weekly data from the Federal Reserve. Most banks have ratcheted up … Continue reading

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Charging for Debit Cards Is Robbery

WHEN Bank of America told its customers recently that it would start charging them $5 a month to use debit cards, it argued that it was forced to make that change because of regulations that altered the economics of the … Continue reading

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