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• Unbanked America

  
  Economix — Authority: 732
  A survey found that 25.6 percent of all households either dont have a checking or savings account, or have a bank account but still rely regularly on payday lenders and pawn shops.
  13 hours ago

• With bank fees rising, prepaid debit cards could replace checking accounts

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Economy These days, new banking fees seem to be spreading like the flu virus, with higher charges for overdrafts, stopped payments, ATM withdrawals and bounced checks popping up on each new monthly statement. The rising costs are leading some consumers to consider the once unthinkable: closing their ...
  14 hours ago

• 60 Million U.S. Residents Are Without Bank Accounts

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 143
  We, in the black community, probably thought it was only our Uncle Ray that was still using his mattress as his savings account, but according to a comprehensive survey by The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) ”nearly 22 percent of black households and 71 percent of families earning less than $30,000 do not ...
  20 hours ago

• 17 Million Americans Keep Their Money Under Their Mattress

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  David Ellis of CNN.Money reports that the FDIC has published a study that says,[A]pproximately 7.7% of all U.S. households, or 17 million Americans, were considered “unbanked,” meaning they did not have any sort of a checking or savings account.The study says that the main reason people do not have bank accounts ...
  2 days ago

• With limited access to bank accounts, millions go without

  
  PIC Current — Authority: 123
  A bank account can be an important step toward financial security, especially when most Americans are budgeting down to their last nickel. But a survey by the FDIC shows that at least 30 million U.S. households are “unbanked” or “underbanked” – meaning these folks have little or no access to basic ...
  2 days ago

• FDIC Releases Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households

  
  Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners — Authority: 486
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has released the findings of its FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , "breaking new ground in gaining understanding of which Americans remain outside the banking system. The survey, conducted on behalf of the FDIC by the U.S. Bureau of the ...
  2 days ago

• Banks and Prepaid Credit Cards

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 152
  If you encounter that you have been overturned downbound for a slope account by digit of the broad street banks, you are very implausible to be alone. Everyday grouping intend overturned absent cod to intense credit, or some aspect of their business story that affects their credit judgement and hence, they are unable ...
  1 week ago

• Overdraft Fees Send Scores to Check Cashing, Payday Loans

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 607
  Exorbitant Overdraft Fees Erase Funds of the Working Poor In what universe does a one percent check cashing fee exceed a $35 overdraft fee for overdrawing a checking account by $.01? (Photo: flickr.com) In the 1960s and 1970s, many of Americas largest banks decided to go "where the money is" by pulling their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are private foundations and investors reshaping the funding landscape in microfinance?

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 116
  If you’ve been to any microfinance conference lately you would think that retail investors, through Kiva , have completely taken over financing MFIs or that the Gates Foundation is the only mover and shaker in this industry. But is this really the case? The microfinance funding landscape is definitely evolving ...
  2 weeks ago

• Red -- Getting Out of It -- Is the New Black

  
  Asset Building Program: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 123
  Across California and the nation- in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento- money is the subject of buzz, new ideas, and VIP events. Specifically, the topic is the lack of money- the have-nots, the why-nots, and trendsetting solutions. For once the subject is not just the typical California budget ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Cost of Payday Loans: Not Excessive, Study Shows

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 607
  Study of Detroit Area Households Yields Surprising Results Pursuit of alternative financial services like payday loans is sometimes necessary. But do the costs break the budget? (Photo: flickr.com) There are numerous entries in the volumes of study on payday loans which suggest that low- to middle-income ...
  4 weeks ago

• The plight of the unbanked: Why 50 million Americans dont use a traditional bank

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 697
  Filed under: Banks , Banking-checking-account , Banking-savings-account Millions - possibly billions - of dollars are homeless, lacking a warm, dry bank account providing a roof over their heads. Although it might seem hard to imagine a day where were stuffing mattresses with money instead of depositing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Univision’s New Card Offering Empowers Hispanic Community

  
  Prepaid Expo — Authority: 118
  Recently, Univision announced a strategic alliance with MasterCard Worldwide to introduce two new prepaid financial services, which include the Univision Prepaid MasterCard Card® and the Univision MasterCard Gift Card®. These prepaid cards will be released nationally in 2010 with the goal of providing Hispanic ...
  4 weeks ago

• New indicators of financial access

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 116
  As more countries put financial inclusion as one of the policy objectives, availability of accurate and regular measures of financial access becomes more important. A couple of weeks ago we launched Financial Access 2009 – a report based on a survey of financial regulators in 139 countries with a new data on ...
  5 weeks ago

• Revealing The Hidden Cost Of PrePaid Debit Cards [Hot Infographics]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 800
  With credit cards harder to come by and more annoying to use, the prepaid debit card market is projected to explode from $8.7 billion loaded on the cards to $119 billion in 2012, but a good chunk of that is going to be eaten up by hidden fees and gotchas. This sexy graphic visualization shows how. Fees like: ...
  5 weeks ago

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