By Victoria Finkle American Banker | March 29, 2012 Regions Financial (RF) has finished rolling out a suite of alternative financial services, including check cashing, money transfer and expedited bill pay services, along with a prepaid card. The progr... »
As read on MyBankTracker.com After a phased rollout, Regions Bank (NYSE: RF) now touts financial services — prepaid cards, check-cashing and Western Union services — to unbanked and underbanked customers throughout its 16-state footprint. “Since introd... »
As read on BankDirector.com By: T. Stephen Johnson March 23rd, 2012 I have two grown children, 25 and 28 years old, who have checking accounts, but have never been in a bank office. Yet, despite all the evidence that branch usage is in decline over th... »
I love December. Christmas. Good tidings to you and all of your friends. And, for the second year in a row, the Consumer Desperation Index falls. It does my heart good to see less fraud going on, as far a check cashing goes, during the holidays. Pe... »
Christian Science Monitor | 06 Jan 2012 | 09:51 AM ET As read on CNBC. They are 30 million consumers, representing a quarter of U.S. households, who earn a collective $1.3 trillion a year. But banks don’t want to serve them, because they lose money. An... »
You can tell who were the winners and losers in Georgia politics in the year 2011 -- they're the ones who wound up with the money . . . »
Fee-based services like check cashing offered to those without accounts. J. Scott Trubey – Staff, Atlanta Journal Constitution Regions Bank, the sixth-largest bank in metro Atlanta, is pursuing revenue from services long ceded to Walmart and the so-cal... »
