‘Unfair’ credit card fees, rates must be examined (Daily Gleaner)
A New Brunswick senator has called upon the standing Senate committee on banking, trade and commerce to study and report on Canada’s credit and debit card rates and fees.

Small business feels the squeeze from big banks (Toronto Sun)
A struggling small business owner, fed up with obscene credit card rates, sent in his "stop the gouging" protest coupon with these remarks:

Banking and Financial (Mondaq)
On November 25, the Federal Reserve Board announced the creation of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) which is intended to help consumers and small businesses obtain credit by promoting the issuance of asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by student loans, auto loans, credit card receivables and certain small business loans.

Congatec's conga-QA is little bigger than a credit card (WindowsForDevices)
Little bigger than a credit card, the conga-QA uses less than five Watts, Congatec says. The fanless device is available with a 1.1GHz Atom Z510 processor, with 400MHz frontside bus, or a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 , with 533MHz frontside bus.

Feds hope to unfreeze small business and consumer lending (BizJournals)
The Federal Reserve Board announced plans Nov. 25 for a $200 billion lending facility aimed at unfreezing secondary markets for Small Business Administration loans and consumer loans.