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The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth management tools. And she says she expects other banks will follow suit.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

Banks don’t actually lend out people’s savings. When they create loans, they create that money out of thin air. And fractional reserve banking (A.K.A. the “money multiplier”) is a myth.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Only insofar as you would say they destroy money supply when a loan is repaid. They just create a credit and a debit that cancel out.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Correct, the principal is essentially destroyed on payment. Once the loan is payed off, all the money that the bank had originally created has been destroyed.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Same with charging late fees, overdraft fees, etc. It's just all made up money.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is a fundamentally different thing. When you go to pay the fees they charge you, you don’t get to create that money out of thin air.

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