• Sunshine (she/her)English
    12·
    14 hours ago

    “A cap of $10 was chosen to balance the need to protect consumers from high fees with the need to maintain the integrity of the payments system by incentivizing consumers to honour their payments,” the department wrote.

    Nonsense, just cancel the transaction then.

    • YogaEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      Don’t worry, they usually do, they just give you privilege of paying anyways.

      Having worked in banking I can tell you it’s a fee that is charged purely to punish people with limited cashflow. EQ bank is the only one I know of that doesn’t have them.

  • magikmw@lemm.ee
    17·
    16 hours ago

    Having had a bank account in Europe for nearly 20 years, I never paid a dime for not having enough money in the account. The transaction just fails.

    I’m so confused.

  • apprehensively_humanEnglish
    60·
    23 hours ago

    This is huge. It seems criminal for banks to charge you up to $50 when you may not even have that in your account.

    34% of Canadians getting slapped with one of these fees in 2023 is bonkers. That’s like $50 million in fees taken from the people who are least able to afford it.

    • Sunshine (she/her)
      9·
      19 hours ago

      Quebec is often ahead of Canada as they also have election spending capped at $100 per year.

      • GreyEyedGhost
        9·
        18 hours ago

        I like both of these ideas.

        I’m reminded of a radio interview with, I believe, an RBC rep a couple decades ago. They were asked about their various fees and why they kept them as they were so unpopular with their customers. The response was along the lines of, “Well, it’s only a small part of our revenue.” I was sort of thinking, “What, so you can’t think of a reason, either?!”

  • CobraChicken3000English
    14·
    22 hours ago

    That’s amazing! I remember being broke and being hit by NSF. It was downright devastating. $40 or $50 is a lot when you have no money.

  • Phil_in_here
    12·
    21 hours ago

    Can anyone explain what risk or labour is involved in an NSF incident and how that’s even worth $10?

    • rekabis
      8·
      18 hours ago

      It’s 100% automatic and electronically based. The marginal cost of processing any NSF is quite literally $0. Even at $10, it’s 100% profit to the banks.

      • slax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Unsure if it has changed but in 2018 I was approving and declining transactions manually before 9:30AM that would go through accounts with insufficient funds. Any transaction I didn’t have time to go through before the 9:30 cut off would auto NSF