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CFSI comments on U.S. Treasury Department’s Launch of Tax Time Debit Card Program

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) today issued a statement commending the U.S. Treasury’s announcement of a 2011 pilot program to test the delivery of tax refunds via debit card accounts. The pilot program, which was deeply informed by CFSI’s SAFE-T Accounts ...

CFSI Launches New Grant Fund to Promote Financial Capabilities among Underserved Consumers

CFSI to support ground-breaking projects designed to move the financial education field forward.

CHICAGO, IL September 1, 2010- The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) launched the Financial Capability Innovation Fund to provide grants and technical assistance to promising nonprofit-led projects designed to ...

President signs Financial Reform Bill, Establishes Loan Loss Reserve Fund

Fund will expand the availability of safe and affordable small-dollar consumer credit
 
Washington, DC July 21, 2010- The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by President Obama today, creates a Loan Loss Reserve Fund for small-dollar, consumer ...

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Center for Financial Services Innovation Advocates for an Exclusion from Interchange Rules for Prepaid Cards

Chicago, June 17, 2010 – The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) issued a statement today on the specific language in the Financial Regulatory Reform bill that would regulate interchange fees, recommending prepaid cards – including government benefits cards, general purpose prepaid ...

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Center for Financial Services Innovation to Lead the Creation of Industry-Wide Principles

 
President Bill Clinton Encourages Growth and Progress within the Financial Services Industry
 

MIAMI, June 10, 2010 Jennifer Tescher, Director of Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), announced this ...

Co-creator of Twitter Kicks Off Forum to Premier Latest Innovations Serving Underbanked Consumers

Underbanked Solutions Exchange to meet and welcome newest participants

MIAMI, June 9, 2010 The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) begins its 5th Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum today with Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of ...

CFSI Innovators Roundtable Convenes in Chicago, Welcomes Sears

March 10, 2010 | IL
Collaboration of Industry Leaders Drives Change
inthe Financial Services Sector
 
CHICAGO, March 10, 2010 – The Center for Financial Services Innovation kicks off the first 2010 Innovators Roundtable today with a new participating company at the table and an agenda ...