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Amarillo National Bank Alerts Customers Of Phone Scam

Billy Goforth — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:00:12 +0000

Amarillo National Bank has issued a warning about a current phone scam that the bank customers (and non customers) are currently experiencing.

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Consumers Could Soon Pay a Fee on Credit Card Transactions — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:00:53 +0000

Current laws prohibit merchants from adding surcharges to credit card transactions, even though the merchants themselves are dinged with fees for accepting the cards.

But thanks to a lawsuit brought by retailers against card-issuers, all that could soon change.

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Could Bank Tellers Someday Become Extinct?

Shauna Wright — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:29:46 +0000

Many of us do our banking via ATM or other electronic means, but how would you feel if actual in-person tellers didn’t exist? A few banks are testing out new systems with the possible goal of making that idea a reality.

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Survey Shows 650,000 Bank Customers Switched to Credit Unions

Shauna Wright — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:00:59 +0000

While Bank of America and other major banks have now scrapped a widely-derided plan to charge customers a monthly fee for using their debit cards, a new survey shows at least 650,000 people closed their accounts with those banks in the past month and fled to more consumer-friendly credit unions.

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Florida-Based Community Bank to Pay Customers for Their Business

Shauna Wright — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:35:29 +0000

In response to Bank of America’s recently announced $5 monthly fee for debit card usage, Florida-based Community Bank is doing the reverse — it’s paying customers to bank with them.

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Older Woman Robs Bank by Threatening Teller With AIDS

Wendy Gould — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:45:22 +0000

When you’re desperate for cash but don’t have a scary weapon to rob a bank, you make due with what you have. For an elderly woman in Colorado, that was a piece of paper and a life-threatening disease.

Last Thursday, the unidentified woman, aged somewhere between 55 and 75, walked up to a Wells Fargo teller in a Safeway grocery store wearing a conductor hat and gray sweatshirt. There, she handed the teller a note.

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