A duck for the people: you can catch Banks waddling around the D.C. area with his owner Micaela Gibson.

But lower-income neighborhoods have seen banks close.

This month D.C. is turning its attention to a problem that affects many residents: they don’t have bank accounts.

In an email to subscribers today, pay-by-phone parking app Parkmobile admitted that maybe it was a little simplistic to pin an increase in transaction fees on financial reform legislation passed by Congress.

Medical marijuana entrepreneurs certainly won’t have it easy in the District, and there’s one more challenge they’ll have to contend with: banking.

The man who robbed two Wells Fargo bank branches in the span of eight days is still at-large, and federal authorities are asking the public for help.

Samuel Lewis was arrested at his Beltsville home by Montgomery County Police on Friday, and subsequently charged with seven bank robberies around the county — though, police note, he is suspected of having committed several others in Arlington and Alexandria.

Due to a public uproar over the allegedly passive review of documents leading to residents being evicted from foreclosed homes, Bank of America has announced that it will temporarily halt all foreclosure proceedings and sales nationwide, reports the Washington Post. In a statement, the bank said that they “will stop foreclosure sales” until an internal investigation is completed. “Our ongoing assessment shows the basis for foreclosure decisions are accurate. We continue to serve the interests of our customers, investors and communities. Providing solutions for distressed homeowners remains our primary focus,” said the statement.

All Life is Local points us to reports of an ATM skimming operation at a SunTrust machine located at 3440 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Cathedral Heights. It serves as a good reminder that, yes, these things actually do happen in the D.C. region:

Capital One purchased D.C. area-based Chevy Chase Bank back at the beginning of 2009, and now the Post reports that the transition to the Capital One brand will be completed sometime this fall. Capital One Bank signs with temporary Chevy Chase Bank covers will soon be installed at all 247 branches, with the Chevy Chase covers to be removed on some yet to be announced date later this year. The re-branding move will mark…