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Rogers Bank Fined $250,000 for Issuing Credit Cards Without Consent
Canada’s financial consumer watchdog fined Rogers Bank $250,000 for failing to obtain consent before providing its customers...
How Will Canada’s Competition Bureau Spend New Budget Money?
Canada’s competition watchdog will have more resources to use, thanks to additional funding proposed in the April 2021 budget,...
Ottawa Considering Lowering Maximum Legal Interest Rate
The federal government is launching consultations to potentially lower the criminal rate of interest, specifically targeting...
Ottawa Targets Lower Credit Card Costs to Merchants
A federal government budget pledge to reduce the amounts businesses pay to accept credit card transactions will likely result in...
Budget 2021: Notable Consumer Commitments
The childcare, pandemic supports and other pledges may have garnered most of the attention, but numerous smaller items have been...