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Feds crack down on plastic fees

The Federal Reserve proposed rules at its board meeting on Thursday, December 16, 2010, to limit the interchange fee that banks charge retailers when the customer uses a debit card. The rule is mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

If implemented, the U.S. banking industry overall could lose $9 billion out of the near $23 billion in fees banks collect each year. ^[]

These changes will impact those companies that collect fees from merchants such as Visa and MasterCard and pass these on to the issuing banks such as Bank of America and JP Morgan.

A typical credit card transaction involves four parties: the merchant accepting the card, the merchant’s bank, the card user and the bank that issued the card. When a credit card users make a purchase using his or her card, the merchant is charged a transaction fee by its bank that typically includes a fixed charge plus a percentage of the amount charged. The merchant’s bank then pays a portion of this transaction fee to the card issuing bank for the risk that the card user might not pay. This fee is the interchange fee.

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Bank of America

Card fees as a percentage of purchases for Bank of America have already shown a sharp decline from 3.3% in 2008 to 1.5% in 2009 due to the changes in consumption pattern because of global economic slowdown and a further decrease in interchange fee by 50% will cause card fee as a percentage of purchase to decline to about 0.7% in 2011.

This would result in about a 4 to 5% decline in the$17.10 Trefis price estimate for Bank of America.

JP Morgan

We estimate that JPMorgan’s card fees as a percentage of purchases is around 1.75% currently and JP Morgan stands to lose nearly $2 billion in revenues annually if the interchange fee is reduced by roughly 50% going forward. This would result in about a 5% decline in $48 Trefis price estimate for JP Morgan.

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Junk food eating dads might give diabetes in children

Warning comes as Britain beats an epidemic of diabetes type 2, with 2 million people already diagnosed.

LONDON: men who stack on junk food can be condemning their future potential diabète.Pères children should keep an eye on their diet in the same way that mothers, involves a new study.

The warning is that Great Britain defeated an epidemic of diabetes type 2, with two million people already diagnosed and this figure is expected to double by 2025.

Seven additional million are on the line of the State, which is generally average age.It significantly raises the chances of heart disease, stroke and the conditions that lead to amputation of a membre.Il can also shorten the life of 10 years, reports the Daily Mail.

Much of the increase has been attributed to Seattle.Mais expansion study suggests at least some of the seeds of destruction may be sown in previous generations, according to the nature magazine.

Researchers Australian and American fed of young male rats a diet high in fats, their mated females in good health and monitoring the health of female offspring.

These 'girls' developed diabetes before they reach puberty, with blood glucose concentrations double those of young people born in other males.

Girls of junk food rats has also produced half of the amount of insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose levels and is essential for the development of diabetes.

Although experience included small single women believed that male descendants would be similarly affected.

It is believed that fatty foods caused subtle changes to DNA in sperm rats causing problems in the metabolism of the next generation.

Margaret Morris, University of New South Wales, Sydney, told New Scientist log: "If similar effects apply in humans, it stressed the need for men to maintain a healthy diet weight and body."

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