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Durbin will pull something on the order of $7billion from the debit business of financial institutions. Whilenot the $14 billion...

A newly released Fed report on collegeaffinity programs (http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/RptCongress/creditcard/2011/downloads/ccap_2011.pdf),which was mandated under the CARD Act, notes the surprising factthat three...

One of the big surprises in the final DurbinAmendment rules was the modification to the exemption criteria forgeneral purpose reloadable...

The initial release of Google+ in lateJune precipitated a whole new round of blogging and commentary onthe Google vs. Facebook...

The Federal Reserve has given us over 300 pagesof rules about the implementation of the Durbin Amendment to theDodd Frank...

Path is an upstart social network, oneof several that are attempting to define a niche distinct fromFacebook's dominance. It launched...

With the announcement of the final debitinterchange rules under the Durbin Amendment, we close the firstchapter on debit pricing regulation....

Let's start out making one thing clear - prepaidcards are not debit cards, and they are not credit cards. Prepaidcards...

We woke up this morning and the sun wasshining, birds singing, and summer flowers were in full bloom.What's different is...

Yesterday's release of a long anticipated updateto the FFIEC's Authentication in an Internet Banking Environmentguidance document breaks little new ground....