Nevada Democrats push to confirm new top consumer finance watchdog [Las Vegas Sun]
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Talk about payroll cuts?
14 payday loan growth 20 - News
I am looking for earnings growth of at least 20% over the next two year period, which should provide a solid underpin to a rising share price and growing dividend flow. It should be noted though that due to the strong growth in the loan book and
Elsewhere, Labour MP Jenny Chapman warned that advice services were under threat and suggested that payday loan companies and the high-cost lending sector should be regulated. Conservative MP Andrew Percy supported the Government's drive to slim down
20 million use payday lenders that can charge up to $16 per $100 they loan (equivalent to an eye-popping APR of about 400 percent -- most credit cards don't get into APRs higher than the low 20 percent range), and over 14 percent of the country's
Missouri, payday-lending haven | Felix Salmon
Sections 408.500-408.505 subject this type of lender to a host of consumer safeguards, i.e., places a 75% cap on interest and fees on the initial loan and renewals, limits renewals to no more than six, limits the term of the loan to 14-31 days, applies daily interest calculations, etc. These sections contain some provisions which go well beyond most “consumer protections”.
the financial crisis, interestingly enough — and acting as a silent rebuke to anybody who would dare to argue that interest rates in the triple digits are necessary to make up for the fact that so many payday loans go bad. (In fact, they’re reasonably safe, if only because they’re secured by a future paycheck.)But the most interesting thing about the Missouri debate, for me, is the role of a group calling itself Stand Up Missouri, which has promulgated a particularly tasteless video which implies that standing up for high-interest-rate lenders is somehow analagous to the acts of the “poor people who followed Dr. King and walked with him hundreds of miles because they believed in civil rights that much”.
Stand Up Missouri is at pains to say that it does not represent payday lenders, and indeed that payday loans, which “do not include a budget review to determine if the borrower has the ability to repay the loan at the two-week or one-month maturity”, “can be difficult for a borrower to manage”.
Yet according to Scott Keyes at Think Progress, Stand Up Missouri “is funded – to the tune of $216,000 – by just seven payday lending corporations”.
The truth, I think, is a bit more complicated. There are payday lenders — and then there are Consumer Installment Lenders , as defined by Section 408.510 rather than 408.500 of the Missouri code:
In 2001, the “traditional” small loan companies and the “payday” lenders separated themselves at $500 with the payday lenders authorized for very short-term loans of up to $500 and traditional lenders able to make any loan from a minimum amount of $500 on up. The consumer installment lender provisions were needed to cover a gap: the borrower of a very small amount who needed more time than the 14-31 day limit on payday lenders… These loans are very much like Consumer Loans, but with some notable exceptions. For instance, the loans may be in any amount, secured or unsecured, but must be repayable in at least four (4) equal installments over a period of 120 days.