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by tlrobinson 3949 days ago
For awhile Bank of America did the exact opposite, ordering transactions each day from largest to smallest to maximize the number of overdraft fees. Fortunately that truly evil practice was put to an end when they lost a $410 million class action lawsuit.
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I worked at a company that developed hardware (check scanning) and software for banks. _Every_ bank wanted the feature that batches transactions on accounts from largest to smallest, to maximize the overdraft fees. That was in 1994 so it has been going on for a long time.