DALLAS - (04/26/06) Start-up PAYjr said Tuesday itplans to introduce a financial education program for kids that iscentered on a prepaid card that parents can program to controltheir kids spending. The cards will be part of a broaderprogram aimed at teaching financial literacy, and will also includea reward system for household chores and a suite of mobiletechnologies that will notify teens when parents assign new choresor deposit money in their accounts. In the third quarter PAYjrplans to launch a prepaid spending card that will allow parents tomonitor what their children spend and restrict where the card canbe used.
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A housing bill that already passed the Senate cleared the House Monday evening, but included bipartisan community banking provisions that have already raised objections in the upper chamber.
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Fifteen banks have failed since November 2019, with the most recent one occurring on Jan. 30.
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The Government Accountability Office was tasked with investigating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's stop-work order, but CFPB officials refused to meet with or provide information to Congress' investigative arm.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said comments from banks and fintech firms reveal sharply different priorities in the creation of the central bank's proposed "skinny" master accounts.
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Check fraud has risen 385% since the pandemic, with criminals using stolen mail and digital tools to deceive major financial institutions.
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The activist investor HoldCo Asset Management said Monday that it doesn't plan to pursue proxy battles this spring at either Key or Eastern. It had been agitating publicly over the banks' M&A strategies.
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