payday loans

Judge Wants Payday Loan Firm To Pay $132.5M To Victims
Judge Wants Payday Loan Firm To Pay $132.5M To Victims
September 04, 2020  |  Legal

A Kansas City payday loan company and its operator will be compelled to pay $132.5 million in restitution to borrowers the company duped, if a...

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How FinTech Can Disrupt A Payday Lending Industry That No One Likes Anyway
How FinTech Can Disrupt A Payday Lending Industry That No One Likes Anyway
August 31, 2020  |  Alternative Credit

The death of U.S. payday lending has long been forecast, as opponents complain that short-term, high-interest loans offer consumers little more than an opportunity to...

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Square’s Cash App Tests Small-Dollar, Short-Term Loans
Square’s Cash App Tests Small-Dollar, Short-Term Loans
August 12, 2020  |  Loans

Cash App, Square Inc.’s mobile payment app, has launched a pilot program to offer short-term loans of up to $200, TechCrunch reported. “We are always...

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CFPB Payday Loan Changes Scrap Ability To Repay Requirement
CFPB Payday Loan Changes Scrap Ability To Repay Requirement
July 09, 2020  |  CFPB

Earlier this week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final rule on payday lending — revoking some would-be restrictions that date back roughly...

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Waters Tells CFPB Head To Do Better
Waters Tells CFPB Head To Do Better
February 06, 2020  |  CFPB

The chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters, told the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Kathy Kraninger, that...

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More Regulatory Trouble Could Be Heading Short-Term Lenders’ Way
More Regulatory Trouble Could Be Heading Short-Term Lenders’ Way
November 19, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

Keeping track of the legal status of short-term lending in the U.S. – which encompasses financial products such as payday loans, pawn loans and title loans...

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UK Payday Lender QuickQuid Expected To Shutter By Year-End
UK Payday Lender QuickQuid Expected To Shutter By Year-End
October 25, 2019  |  International

The U.K.’s largest payday lender QuickQuid is expected to close its doors by the end of the year, The Financial Times (FT) reported on Thursday...

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Google Play Store Boots Payday Loan Apps
Google Play Store Boots Payday Loan Apps
October 13, 2019  |  Google

High-interest consumer loans — often known as payday advances — are now banned from having apps on the Google Play store, The Wall Street Journal...

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Why ‘Liquidity As A Service’ Is A Gig Thing
Why ‘Liquidity As A Service’ Is A Gig Thing
August 16, 2019  |  Gig Economy

For gig workers, a growing subset of the economy where at least one-third of the U.S. workforce has taken on project-based work, getting paid in...

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