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• Overdraft Fees Send Scores to Check Cashing, Payday Loans

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 603
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 603
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 714
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• New indicators of financial access

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 798
  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: ...
  3 weeks ago

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