Experian and HSBC Deal Allows Consistent Decisioning Models to be Used Across Different Countries... Experian®, the global information services company, announced an enterprise deal with HSBC to help integrate the bank's access to external data sources around the world. Starting in Asia, Experian's Connect+ data integration software wil...
Workers Without Bank Accounts Typically Spend Hundreds of Dollars a Year to Cash Checks... Federal and local governments are trying once again to persuade some of the 17 million U.S. adults who rely on check-cashing services to open their own bank accounts. Past efforts to lure "unbanked" consumers into the financial mainstream have fall...
Bank Products Must be Fairly Priced and Meet the Needs of Low-Income People... As regulators conduct public hearings, community groups call for better enforcement of law to hold banks accountable. In what is the first public opportunity to assess banking regulations left out of the recent financial reform bill passed by Congress, the fed...
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Experian and HSBC Deal Allows Consistent Decisioning Models to be Used Across Different Countries... Experian®, the global information services company, announced an enterprise deal with HSBC to help integrate the bank's access to external data sources around the world. Starting in Asia, Experian's Connect+ data integration software will be used by HSBC to enable access, consolidation ...
Workers Without Bank Accounts Typically Spend Hundreds of Dollars a Year to Cash Checks... Federal and local governments are trying once again to persuade some of the 17 million U.S. adults who rely on check-cashing services to open their own bank accounts. Past efforts to lure "unbanked" consumers into the financial mainstream have fallen short. Some states require state-chartered bank...
Bank Products Must be Fairly Priced and Meet the Needs of Low-Income People... As regulators conduct public hearings, community groups call for better enforcement of law to hold banks accountable. In what is the first public opportunity to assess banking regulations left out of the recent financial reform bill passed by Congress, the federal financial regulators are holding the final of...
Credit Card Issuers Will No Longer be Allowed to Charge You a Late Payment Fee... Starting August 22, new regulations will go into effect that will help limit credit card and gift card fees and require banks to periodically re-evaluate credit card interest rate hikes to see if higher rates are still justified. The new regulations implement consumer protections required under the CARD Act p...
ByAllAccounts Integration Makes it Possible to Receive Almost 100% of Brokerage Data Electronically... Compliance11®, Inc. and ByAllAcccounts today announced a partnership that revolutionizes personal trading compliance. By adding best-in-class account aggregation through ByAllAccounts, Compliance11 customers can now automatically obtain feeds from thousands of brokerages for use in person...
Ashworth College Embraces Active Duty, Veterans, and Military Spouses Into its Student Ranks... Ashworth College was announced yesterday as making G.I. Job's 2011 list of Military Friendly Schools. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to recruit students with military experience. Since April, G.I. Jobs polled more than 7,0...
LendingTree Network Offered Mortgage Rates as Low as 4.125 Percent... Mortgage rates remained flat this week, according to the LendingTree Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, a snapshot of the lowest and average mortgage rates available within the LendingTree network of lenders. On August 10, lenders on the LendingTree network offered mortgage rates as low as 4.125 percent (4.26% APR) for a 30-y...
Fed Vows to Keep Interest Rates at Record Low Levels... The Federal Reserve Board scaled back its expectations for the economy Tuesday, vowing to keep interest rates at record low levels and taking a small measure to stimulate a recovery that has lost steam. The Fed said it will reinvest proceeds from mortgage and other debt that it owns in longer-term Treasury debt. Economists said the ...
A Nation that Wants to Help More People Get a Post-High-School Education Cannot Afford Such High Default Rates... It's not surprising that enrollment at for-profit colleges nearly tripled from 2000 to 2008, and is believed to have grown substantially since then. As U.S. companies have cut their payrolls and a degree or certificate has become a prerequisite for more kinds of work, people hav...
What's More, Some Relatives Must Go to Court to Fight the State for Money to Bury their Kin... When Rosella Stitzell checked into the state-run Southwestern Veterans Center in 2002, the World War II veteran was told 80 percent of her monthly pension would pay for her stay. Twenty percent would go into a personal savings account maintained by the home in Lincoln-Lemington. Over the next s...
