Tools for Starting a Local Move Your Money Campaign

Date: 19 Apr 2010 | posted in: Banking | 2 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Is your community organization or local business alliance thinking about launching a public education campaign to encourage people to move their accounts to locally owned banks and credit unions? We have a range of resources to assist you, including help with definitions and identifying local banks, sample flyers, graphs and background articles, examples of local banking campaign materials from around the country, and more.  … Read More

Finally, a Bill to Reinstate Limits on Bank Size

Date: 24 Mar 2010 | posted in: Banking | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Not one to let a good crisis go to waste, Bank of America managed, in the dark days of 2008, to parlay its own insolvency and near collapse into attaining something it had long dreamed of: federal approval to bypass a national law that says that no bank may acquire another bank if it would end up holding more than 10 percent of the country’s deposits.

Now, at long last, a new Senate proposal calls for reinstating strict size caps.  It would mean disassembling at least five big banks.

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Big Banks Want You Back

Date: 11 Mar 2010 | posted in: Banking | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Those who wonder whether public anger at big banks and the Move Your Money sentiment sweeping the country is substantial enough to impact these giants need only look at the banks’ own marketing over the last few weeks to see the proof. … Read More

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