The report calls on states and federal regulators to take strong action against all
forms of payday lending, including storefront, internet, and bank payday lending.
This inability to diagnose the
problem of payday lending is itself just a part of a much wider failure to cope with the fallout of the financial crisis.
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Whether or not you're likely to take out a payday loan depends a lot on where you live; researchers found that residents of states with lax
regulation of the payday lending industry are more likely to borrow this way.
The commissioner for standards confirmed this as my motivation based on evidence that I have worked on cross party campaigns to protect consumers, that I have long argued for tighter regulation
of the payday lending industry.
The city of Columbia in Missouri is weighing the possibility of placing new restrictions on the business
practices of payday lending companies.
Although white women between the ages of 25 and 44 are the most frequent customers of payday lenders, a look at the percentages shows that some groups bear much more of the
brunt of payday lending relative to their population size.
The Tory MP for North Swindon, then a member of the Public Accounts Committee, sent a draft version of a report into regulating payday loans to an
employee of payday lending firm Wonga.
The concept of «usury» is a powerful one for all three Abrahamic faiths, and it allows them all to cut through to the core moral
issue of payday lending — namely whether companies are using people's desperation as an opportunity for profit.
[vii] An increase in the
number of payday lending locations in a particular county is associated with an 11 percent increase of involuntary bank account closures, even after accounting for county per capita income, poverty rate, educational attainment, and a host of other variables.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has always been a known
enemy of payday lending agencies and has organized campaigns against them over the years.
In states where legislative controls are weak — and in the absence of federal regulations — some local governments have stepped forward to address the problems caused by high - cost, predatory payday loans.The researchers traveled to three regions — Silicon Valley in Northern California; Greater Metropolitan Dallas in Texas; and Greater Salt Lake City in Utah — to see how local entities have produced numerous ordinances aimed at halting the
spread of payday lending.
Most recently, two new
forms of payday lending have taken hold in Ohio, which involve using a title for an automobile as collateral and lending under a statute meant for credit repair.
In this area at least, it appears that the FCA have begun to weed the true bad pennies from the
world of payday lending.
The states of Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia have put loan rate caps on payday loan transactions and the
practice of payday lending isn't officially authorized within their borders.