SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Could Help Establish the First City-Run Public Bank in the US The SF Board of Supervisors voted to add a measure to the November ballot that would help the city work toward establishing its own public bank, which would fund affordable housing, green energy, and small businesses — the first of its kind in the nation.
Business & Tech Feds’ Autopsy On Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Blames Bank Management, Loosened Regulations The Federal Reserve performed a post-mortem on last month’s spectacular, sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and blamed terrible decisions by bank management, but also themselves and the FDIC for lax regulation.
SF News Wells Fargo Dodges $203 Million In Overdraft Fees Sad news for anyone who has ever felt the sting of an overdraft fee from the nation's largest bank: a federal appeals court in San Francisco declared yesterday that Wells Fargo
SF News Activists Turn Bank Of America ATMs Into 'Truth Machines' Overnight Local rapscallions from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) turned Bank of America ATMs into temporary political machines of activism overnight. Using non-adhesive stickers designed to look like BoA's ATM screens.
Arts & Entertainment Poll: Best Credit Union in Town? In light of the historic protests currently taking place over on Wall Street, along with the trend of banks -- most notably Bank of America -- beginning to charge monthly fees for debit card use,
SF News Wells Fargo Ordered to Pay $200M for Overdraft-Fee Nonsense According to the Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo has been ordered "pay more than $200 million to compensate customers who the judge said were improperly charged millions in overdraft fees." Today,
SF News WaMu to Cut 1,600 Bay Area Jobs It was announced today that Washington Mutual , which was shoved under the thumb of federal regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in September, will close its Pleasanton campus and eliminate hundreds of San
