banks raising fees

A new study says a forthcoming crackdown on certain fees could cost big banks billions, but it's not clear that the impact will be as bad as they claim -- even as they blame these regulations for high checking-account fees they're foisting on customers. First, some background: Legislation passed...

Now that the CARD Act as well as legislation requiring banks to give customers a choice about overdraft fees is in place, banks have begun responding predictably, this article says: They're adding new fees and jacking up the ones that already existed. The article linked to above lists the...