January 21, 2016 Yahoo Finance U.S. agency seeks $1.3 bln in racecar driver’s payday lending case U.S. regulators have asked a federal judge in Nevada to order a professional racecar driver and various entities he and his late brother controlled to pay more than $1.32 billion for engaging in a scheme to deceive payday lending customers. For more coverage: Law360 …
Payday News, December 21 – January 8
January 5, 2016 The Hill Blog Stop the debt trap Gary Kalman from CRL posted a response to Jeffrey H. Joseph’s blog about the CFPB rule on payday loans. January 6, 2016 PBS Newshour Fighting the debt trap of triple-digit interest rate payday loans South Dakota has been the epicenter of high interest since the 1980s, when the state repealed …
Payday News, December 11-22
December 21 CBS Dallas-Forth Worth New Ordinance In Mequite For Payday Lending Companies Mesquite joins 29 other Texas cities to pass ordinances regulating payday and title loans. For more coverage: NBC Dallas-Forth Worth | Mesquite Approves New Policies for Payday Lenders December 21 Connecticut Post Connecticut probes Oklahoma tribe’s payday loan businesses The state Department of Banking is investigating small …