From buy now, pay later (BNPL) to credit card installments, there are diverse credit and lending products available to consumers today. However, for two-thirds of...
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...
Recent short-term, or repo, lending issues have Sen. Elizabeth Warren worried that banks could potentially use the problems to justify easing regulations on the banking...
Short-term lending has something of a bad rap in the United States — consumer advocacy groups have long accused them of being predatory debt traps, and...
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...
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...
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...
The partial government shutdown, which is now in its fourth week with no sign of ending, is helping out at least two industries: pawn shops...
Short-term lending – specifically, payday loans – have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, from the media and from the regulators. A little...