banking

The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House this week.

Construction has started on a long-planned bank building just west of the Oakdale Commons in Johnson City.

Q. My husband thinks we shouldn’t have separate checking accounts. I think we should so we don’t fight about money. How can we compromise?

"Folks often don't realize until they look at their account balances how much money is being zapped out of their accounts," said Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, executive director of New Jersey Citizen Action, responding to the latest numbers.

Q. After this Wells Fargo scandal, I’m thinking of moving my accounts and my mortgage. Should I?

Q. I want to open a bank account with my mother so I can help make sure her bills are paid. Should we be on the same account or are there possible problems I’m not thinking of? Instead of could get online access to her account I guess, but what I could do then would be limited, right?

Q. My wife handles the finances for her parents. A continuing problem is that many institutions will not accept a durable general power of attorney unless it is on their particular form. Can they do this? What happens in cases of dementia?

With more and more people doing their banking online these days, the entire banking industry is undergoing a big transformation in New Jersey and across the nation.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- France's largest bank, BNP Paribas, has agreed to pay nearly $9 billion to resolve criminal allegations that it processed transactions for clients in Sudan and other blacklisted countries in violation of U.S. trade sanctions, the Justice Department announced Monday. The bank pleaded guilty to state charges in New York and plans another guilty plea in federal court next month. Re

European bank Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty Monday to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about $2.6 billion.