Topic: U.S. Bancorp

The Big Banks Have Plenty of Other Names for Fees

Reuters

Big banks in the U.S. have found a clever way to respond to the hullabaloo over the new debit-card fees some of them proposed and then had to walk back: charge new fees, but call them something else.

By Dino Grandoni

Oct 28, 2011

Big Banks Are Backing Off Debit Card Fees

J.P. Morgan and other major banks in the U.S. have decided that they're not going to try and pull a Bank of America by adding any new fees to their already cash-strapped debit-card customers.

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