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

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 614
  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 ...
  3 days ago

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

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 718
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Univision’s New Card Offering Empowers Hispanic Community

  
  Prepaid Expo — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• New indicators of financial access

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 776
  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: ...
  1 week ago

• 50% Drop in the Number of British Households Without Bank Accounts

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The Government and the Financial Inclusion Taskforce have announced that the shared goal to halve the number of adults living in households without access to a bank account has been achieved. The shared goal was agreed in December 2004 between the Government and the banks.  The latest report on access to banking by ...
  2 weeks ago

• FiCentive Partners with Redbank to Offer Prepaid Debit Cards

  
  Prepaid Expo — Authority: 115
  According to this article in bizjournals FiCentive has formed a partnership with a Mexican package and mail delivery company called Redpack to issue a line of prepaid debit cards that consumers can use to send money to friends and family living in Mexico.FiCentive is taking this chance to gain a percentage of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Wave Of Consumer Protections To Help The ‘Unbanked’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  For years, the country’s makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation.  But as the financial crisis sparks a new wave of consumer protections, lawmakers and the private sector alike are training their sights on an industry that caters to the most ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Banks, step your game up!”

  
  John Ryan | Blog — Authority: 99
  Via the NYT Freakonomics blog , we’ve stumbled onto a video by  that attempts to answer the question: “why do people use check cashing places, instead of banks?” Be forewarned, this video has some colorful language. But it is highly entertaining and actually provides a brief glimpse into the reality of the ...
  7 weeks ago

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