Congress will get another chance to limit checkingaccountoverdraft fees that continue to annoy customers and produce billions of dollars in revenue each year for banks and credit unions.
FORBES: Lawmakers Target Unfair Overdraft Charges
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To be sure there are bad actors (although very small in numbers), and there are quite a few good-but-not-amazing prepaid products (which still beat out a checkingaccount with overdraft on an average use-case).
FORBES: Bluebird vs Greendot. Prepaid wins.
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In July 2010, the Federal Reserve required banks to receive permission from each checkingaccount customer before the bank provided overdraft protection for ATM and debit card transactions.