payday loans

Consumers Still Have Much To Learn To Reach Financial Literacy
Consumers Still Have Much To Learn To Reach Financial Literacy
April 24, 2019  |  Financial Inclusion

As Financial Literacy month comes to a close, we take a look at how consumers are faring with their finances. Despite being saddled with debt,...

READ MORE >
Earnin Investigated For Offering Covert Payday Loans
Earnin Investigated For Offering Covert Payday Loans
April 05, 2019  |  Regulation

Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Earnin has potentially run afoul of New York State regulators with its payday advance product for consumers. The New York...

READ MORE >
Stay On CFPB Payday Lending Rule Upheld
Stay On CFPB Payday Lending Rule Upheld
March 25, 2019  |  Regulation

A federal judge late last week ordered a stay on the August 2019 compliance date tied to the “payday lending rule” mandated roughly two years...

READ MORE >
Morgan Lewis Principal Weighs In On Payday Loan Debate
Morgan Lewis Principal Weighs In On Payday Loan Debate
February 18, 2019  |  Regulation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said earlier in the month that it will look to overhaul a number of payday loan regulations that were...

READ MORE >
New Paths And Pressures For Payments
New Paths And Pressures For Payments
February 08, 2019  |  Today In Data

The payments landscape in Europe is set to change later this year, with PSD2 joining GDPR in a kind of early 21st-century digital balancing act....

READ MORE >
CFPB Payday Lending Rules 2.0 — What’s Next
CFPB Payday Lending Rules 2.0 — What’s Next
February 07, 2019  |  CFPB

The next chapter in the ongoing saga that is payday loan regulation officially began yesterday (Feb. 6), with the announcement that the Consumer Financial Protection...

READ MORE >
CFPB To Overhaul Payday Lending Rule
CFPB To Overhaul Payday Lending Rule
February 06, 2019  |  Regulation

As part of a move to revise a payday loan regulation from the Obama era, the Trump administration on Wednesday (Feb. 6) revealed a plan...

READ MORE >
Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative
Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative
February 05, 2019  |  Loans

You know the story. Critics say that short-term, small-dollar loans push consumers into the hamster wheel of a never-ending debt cycle – one that turns a two-day...

READ MORE >
Changes On Deck For The CFPB’s Payday Lending Rule
Changes On Deck For The CFPB’s Payday Lending Rule
January 22, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

Could it be that the CFPB, under new Executive Director Kathy Kraninger, will be moving directly to eliminate the more controversial provisions of its payday lending...

READ MORE >