New IDC Energy Insights Report Explores Prepayment Solutions for Utilities and Energy Retailers IDC Energy Insights today announced a new report, Business Strategy: Prepayment for Customer Choice and Financial Security , that explores the options for configuration, benefits of undertaking, and potential challenges for utilities and retail energy providers offering customers prepayment programs.
June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Alistair Darling in Reuters UK We want to see the 5 million customers on prepayment meters given a fairer deal and energy companies to increase their support to vulnerable customers,Darling told parliament.
Ben Bernanke in Washington Post Such products could be designed to avoid or mitigate the risk of prepayment shock and to be more transparent with respect to their terms,Bernanke wrote in the letter, which was dated Monday.
Barney Frank in Forbes In an e-mailed statement, Frank said the short-term increase would be "responsive to the immediate needs to help people avoid the foreclosures that will result if prepayment penalties keep them locked in to adjustable-rate mortgages that will rise...