The biggest banks impose much higher fees on their customers than small financial institutions do. This is exactly the opposite of what was promised in...
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Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher for ILSR, joins Rick Hoffstetter, the President and CEO of Lighthouse Bank to discuss the national Move Your Money campaign on...
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Although small and mid-sized banks control only 22 percent of all bank assets, they account for 54 percent of small business lending. Big banks, meanwhile,...
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The latest report from TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky warns, “Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008,...
The New Rules Project, in partnership with HuffPost’s Move Your Money campaign, is using its Community Banking Initiative to get out the word that banking...
As we start down the path of breaking up with the big banks and defending our own economic interests and that of our communities, we...
Hearings held to investigate the crash of 1929 led to the passage of the Glass-Steagall Act, which fundamentally restructured the banking industry. Can the FCIC...
Credit card processing is not only highly concentrated – MasterCard, Visa, and American Express control 93 percent of the market – but competition among the...
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world’s local bank." Starbucks is un-branding at least three of...
Independent businesses are largely at the mercy of Visa and MasterCard when it comes to the fees they must pay every time they swipe a...
The delinking of money from place and productive investment is not the inevitable result of technological advances or economic evolution. Money is a human invention...
The nation’s largest seller of everything from groceries to toys wants to go into banking. Wal-Mart has applied to open a bank in Utah. State...