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WaMu’s Friendly Layout Gets Customer Robbed
By 10.2.06
A man is suing Washington Mutual’s for being robbed at knifepoint for $20,805 after leaving the bank.
Road To Overdraft Hell Paved With Floats
By 9.30.06
The short answer to the questions raised in “National City Bank Loves Inexplicable Overdraft Fees” is simple. If you’re a broke-ass, don’t fuck with float.
National City Bank Loves Inexplicable Overdraft Fees
By 9.29.06
Let’s play a game. Can you spot the problem below?
Clark Howard Attacks Bank of America For Jailing Customer, Costs Millions
By 9.28.06
A Bank of America customer trying to verify a check sent to him by a scammer was cast in irons for his trouble. Now Clark Howard, consumer activist radio host, has started a campaign encouraging everyone to withdraw their money from BofA in protest. Bank officials claim they’re just doing their duty but Howard and his viewers aren’t buying it. According to Howard’s site, so far they’ve cost BofA over $18 million in withdrawals.
Wachovia Apologizes For Locking Old Man In Bank
By 9.13.06
Robyn submitted a complaint on the Wachovia website about Monday’s unfortunate incident. This was their swift response:
What’s The Rates?
By 9.11.06
Many banks have updated their interest rates recently. Where’s the hotspots to parkk your checking and savings?
Consumerist Ask Metafilter Round-Up
By 8.31.06
• In Edinburgh for a few months, what’s the best mobile phone to use to make international calls to US (amongst other places) from Scotland? [Link]
WaMu Adds Chinese and Russian to ATMs
By 8.28.06
We have yet to independently verify this, i.e., we’ve been putting off going to the bank for a few days, but it seems that WaMu added Russian and Chinese to its ATM languages.
Hedge Fund Notes Disconnect Between Bank Strategy and Execution. Duh.
By 8.14.06
Second Curve Capital is a hedge fund, managing hogsheads of cash in long-term investments on the stocks of banks and financial services. Most of the year is spent over ponderous goblets of brandies, smoking fine cigars at financiers’ gentlemen’s clubs, absorbing the exuberance and doldrums of bank CEOs and presidents.
Say Cheese! You’re About To Be Robbed.
By 8.7.06
Making a withdrawal? An amateur photographer in the bank lobby pointing his camera at you? It might be best not to pose with those large, pregnant sacks, swollen with wads of cash and tattooed with dollar symbols. Smile! Say Cheese! You’re about to be robbed.
Letters to the Editor: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
By 7.5.06
Some would envy Eilidh, being showered with golden jewelry by a male admirer.
ID Theft Much Cheaper Than Thought?
By 6.27.06
One number bandied with reckless abandon is $48 billion dollars, supposedly the total lost to identity theft. That’s lot of money.
