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Late Payments On Consumer Loans Reach 16 Year High

April 6, 2008

A recently released survey from the American Bankers Association shows consumer loan delinquencies have reached a 16 year high.
Loans at least 30 days past due in in the most recent quarter totaled 2.65%. This is the highest level of delinquency since 1992, when delinquencies totaled 2.75%.
Source: USA Today – Late payments on consumer loans [...]

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5 Tips for Protecting Your Checking Account

January 11, 2008

The Federal Reserve recently released a short publication detailing five tips that consumers should remember to maintain their checking accounts and protect their money from identity thieves.
The tips for protecting your checking account data are:

Don’t give your account number and bank routing number information to anyone you don’t know. Comment: These two pieces of [...]

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All About Check Conversion

January 7, 2008

You’ve probably noticed – if you are still a check writer – that more an more stores are now "converting" your check into an electronic format.  There are three common methods of check conversion, and we will look at them in this post.  All methods utilize the ACH (Automated Clearing House) network to clear electronic [...]

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