Analysts questioned whether American Express would be willing to reduce its fees to match those of MasterCard and Visa, or alternatively, to provide a significant portion of its larger fees to banks it might affiliate with.
Yes, dental care has become increasingly expensive in this country, and even with insurance many people are stuck paying large fees on top of that.
Venture firms raising ever-larger investment funds–which produce ever-larger fees, of course, and rich lifestyles for the VCs getting them–have simply backed too many crummy companies over the last 10 years.
The argument for the relaxation goes like this: professional investors did such a lacklustre job, by and large, and charged large fees for the privilege, of handling our savings that we should have the opportunity to have a go ourselves.
They charge large fees for the privilege of accepting your money and often lock investors in for two to three years.
She said brokers had a stranglehold on apartments and charged tenants large fees to move in: 15 percent of the first year's lease, which in her case was $4,500.
In the UK and other markets where it operates (Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy), Sky pioneered the idea of paying large fees for rights for specific content like sports, nabbing exclusives to broadcast Premier League matches and using that to build its subscriber base.
You might appreciate their eagerness to sign you up, but it's important to keep in mind that for-profit banks often charge large fees for precisely the sorts of things that students tend to do–like overdrawing a checking account or taking money out of a competitor's ATM.
Last year, the university initiated a lawsuit, thinking to "converge" the Warburg's books into its larger library system, and to continue charging the Warburg a very large fee for the use of its building.
The banks might charge Thomas Cook a very large fee for the privilege of extending its borrowing facility for the second time in as many months; after all, the company's projections of cash flows have just been revealed as wrong.
Analysts say that nickel-and-diming might be worth a laugh or two — if some of the larger fees weren't snowballing so quickly as well.
