Rogue Agencies Gut State Banking Laws

Date: 5 Sep 2001 | posted in: Banking | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The only reason you’re not afraid of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision is because you don’t know what they do. Called indentured servants to the national banking industry, they are dismantling the state regulatory system piece by piece, with nothing more than a polite scolding from Congress. If … Read More

Minnesota Should Ban ATM Surcharges

Date: 4 Nov 1999 | posted in: Banking | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Inone of the most significant decisions of Tuesday’s election, San Francisco voters approved a ballot measure prohibiting automated teller machine (ATM) surcharges within the city. The vote marks a major victory in the growing effort to outlaw the fees. San Francisco will join the city of Santa Monica, Calif., and two states, Iowa and Connecticut, in prohibiting ATM surcharges. By Stacy Mitchell – originally published in Twin Cities Star Tribune, November 4, 1999

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