> The reason we don’t see larger banks offering debit cards with rewards is because of the "Durbin Act”; a federal mandate which slashed interchange margins of banks with more than $10 billion in deposits. This was done in order to protect consumers and merchants from increasing and predatory prices that banks were trying to instill.
OOC, will this limit your growth in the long-term? What happens if you grow beyond $10B in deposits? Is the plan to partner with other small regional banks that have less than $10B in deposits, and does that circumvent the "Durbin Act"?