Online Payday Loans to Increase to 60 Percent of Total Short Term Loans by...
In 2011, 35 Percent of Payday Loans Were Obtained Online. It's projected that the percentage of online short term loans will climb to 60 percent of total payday loans by 2016. Download image Obtain...
View ArticlePayday loan companies banned from campus as students turn to sex trade to...
The University of East London’s chaplain today said some students have turned to prostitution after getting mired in debt. The university claims to be the first to outlaw the firms — which offer...
View ArticleIndian tribe 'employee' thrives on payday loans
While Missouri's many brick-and-mortar payday loan shops have been the focus of public ire and reform efforts over the last few years, an even more insidious operation has thrived across the state...
View ArticleNew data shows car title loans big business in Va
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia car title lenders doled out nearly 128,500 loans worth more than $125 million in 2011, according to data collected by the State Corporation Commission for the first full...
View ArticleNew data show car title loans big business in Va.
Virginia car title lenders doled out nearly 128,500 loans worth more than $125 million in 2011, according to data collected by the State Corporation Commission for the first full year under state...
View ArticlePayday-Loans.org Now Providing Unsecured Personal Loans: An Alternative to...
The Fact that 19.8% of Homeowners Had Upside Down Mortgages at the End of Q1 of 2013 Makes Unsecured Personal Loans Attractive to Borrowers BALTIMORE, Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- At the end...
View ArticleCordray’s first action as consumer-finance chief is examining payday lenders
Richard Cordray’s first Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hearing will be in Alabama. The Daily Briefing President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has bought television advertising time in a...
View ArticleBusiness news briefs — Feb. 4
LOCAL BUSINESS Dick’s to relocate Dick’s Sporting Goods didn’t have to go on a long hunt to find a place to relocate in the Chapel Hill retail area. Developer Visconsi Cos. Ltd. in Pepper Pike said it...
View ArticleDoes 6,000 Percent Interest Make You a Loan Shark?
The recession in the U.K. has produced an explosion of payday lenders, with much of the action online. Britons now take out more than 8 million short-term loans worth more than 2 billion pounds a...
View ArticleLoans-payday.com Announces Effort to Educate First-Time Borrowers on...
By Educating Borrower's on the Personal Loan Process, Loans-payday.com Hopes to Help First-Time Borrowers Avoid the Common Pitfalls. Download image "Teaching First Time Borrowers How to Avoid The...
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Situations involving single mothers, holding Wal-Mart Stores shares of stock and various other concerns were discussed in a free financial advice program coordinated by the Akron Beacon Journal. It...
View ArticleBeware of unlicensed online lenders
Payday lenders have been around for years, offering quick-but-pricey loans to distressed borrowers. Today, they’re getting elbowed aside by a growing cadre of online competitors who aren’t licensed...
View ArticleBob Dyer: Stalker wins, woman moves from Akron home
During the past decade, the Elizabeth Park Valley, a historically crime-infested neighborhood tucked 250 feet below what Akronites call the Y-Bridge, has been transformed from a certifiable hellhole...
View ArticleIllegal online lenders plague payday loan industry
Payday lenders have been around for years, offering quick-but-pricey loans to distressed borrowers. From hundreds of walk-in storefront offices, they loan out small amounts to be paid back from the...
View ArticleHow Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down
A version of this story was co-published with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2008, payday lenders suffered a major defeat when the Ohio legislature banned high-cost loans. That same year, they lost...
View ArticleChitwood Harley Harnes LLP Announces Lawsuits Filed Against Several Banks...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The law firms of Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Tycko & Zavareei LLP, and Kopelowitz Ostrow P.A. announce that they have filed several cases...
View ArticlePayday lenders find ways around efforts to limit interest rates
In 2008, payday lenders suffered a major defeat when the Ohio legislature banned high-cost loans. That same year, they lost again when they dumped more than $20 million into an effort to roll back the...
View ArticleStueve Siegel Hanson LLP Announces Lawsuits Filed Against Several Banks...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The law firms of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, Tycko & Zavareei LLP, and Kopelowitz Ostrow P.A. announce that they have filed several...
View ArticleFinally, somebody is standing up against payday lenders
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