The American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Consumer Bankers Association have gone to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to try to stop a California law that restricts how they can use customer information.

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Steep increases in college costs are to blame for the student-loan debt burden, and most student loans are now made by the government, says Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a private lenders' industry group.

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The fees that credit cards generally add to purchases abroad are often less than you'd pay to get cash at currency-exchange kiosks or hotels, which often have poor exchange rates or high commissions, said Fritz Elmendorf, vice president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a national trade group.

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The American Bankers Association in 2011 asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to apply consumer financial protection laws uniformly across the financial sector regardless of whether an entity is a traditional bank or one of the evolving nonbank payment providers.

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