(StatePoint) If you’ve noticed your banking and financial service fees going up, you’re not imagining it. Thanks to new rules and regulations restricting banks from making certain kinds of risky investments, they are finding new streams of revenue.
But experts say that there are steps you can take to avoid paying a price for the nation’s well-intended but costly new banking reforms.
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