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Federal Financial Reform: Implications for Texas and Consumers

  

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Don Baylor /(512) 320-0222 x 108

August 10, 2010

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How will financial reform affect Texas and consumers? CPPP Senior Policy Analyst Don Baylor recently spelled out the implications of reform at an FDIC Alliance for Economic Inclusion (AEI) meeting.

The new law would expand initiatives to increase financial education and campaigns to "bank the unbanked.” Some of these initiatives are already underway in Texas.

Texas Bank On programs are increasing access to financial services for the unbanked and underbanked. To learn more, visit one of these Texas Bank On programs:

• Bank on Central Texas
• Bank on Dallas
• Bank on Houston
• Bank on San Antonio
• Bank On It in Bryan