{"id":11911,"date":"2011-09-15T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2011-09-15T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:55:11","slug":"outrage-over-heavy-bank-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/outrage-over-heavy-bank-fees","title":{"rendered":"Outrage Over Heavy Bank Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chamber of Commerce president\u00a0 blasted Bahamian commercial banks for imposing &#8220;astronomical and outrageous&#8221; hidden fees that he took four months to pick up on, and urged the Government and regulators to implement greater oversight of an industry he described as &#8220;a cartel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dionisio D&#8217;Aguilar, president of the Superwash laundromat chain, told Tribune Business that he was &#8220;outraged&#8221; by the 2 per cent &#8216;excess penalty fee&#8217; CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank (Bahamas) had begun imposing on clients who went into overdraft &#8211; even for one day a month &#8211; and had established no such facilities with the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chamber of Commerce president has lambasted Bahamian banks for &#8220;astronomical and outrageous&#8221; hidden fees and he is calling for greater regulatory controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,40,49],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-banks","tag-government","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}