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Payday Lenders Go To Court In Attempt To Keep Working With Banks

The payday lending industry claims that recent regulatory efforts to rein in short-term, high-interest loans have severely restricted their access to traditional banks. Now a trade organization ... “P... read more

Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

The group ... companies AIG and Chubb have publicly talked about their private wildfire teams. AIG has its own “Wildfire Protection Unit,” while Chubb—and up to a dozen other insurers—contract with Wi... read more

Weekly Commentary: Back To Fundamentals

And then came Friday's (post-election) barbs from the director of the White House's National Trade Council ... try to improve funding access for China's non-state companies… It's the first ... read more

The Dos and Don’ts of Paying a Debt Collector

And watch out: money transfers are the preferred payment method for scammers, warns the Federal Trade Commission. In a consumer ... the credit and collection industry trade group ACA International. Ke... read more

US brands suffer collateral damage in Chinese corporate war

As the Trump administration pushes China to play by fair trade rules, companies are caught in a quieter but no less crucial struggle for fair access to a $610 billion ... Chinese brands defected last ... read more

A vicious cycle in the used car business

(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) Dealers say they offer a valuable service, giving people with bad credit access ... trade group, the Community Auto Finance Assn., to represent them before Congress ... read more

Diversion Programs Say They Offer a Path Away From Court, but Critics Say the Tolls Are Hefty

The expansion of private, for-profit diversion programs comes as states struggle with ... The lawsuits alleged the companies charged excessive fees and used prosecutors’ letterhead to conceal their id... read more

Elevate Credit: Significant Downside Potential On Mispriced Risks

Elevate Credit, Inc. is an online credit solutions provider operating in the US and UK. It is a 2014 spin-off of Think Finance, Inc. ("TFI"). The company specializes in non-prime consumer ... the data ... read more

How the founder of 'legal loan shark' Wonga made a comeback as London's fintech messiah

Errol Damelin pushes things to the limit ... Damelin and his cofounder Jonty Hurwitz worked 20-hour days to build an online lender that shook up the consumer credit market, offering short-term, high-i... read more

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

The mobile companies say Project Verify can improve online authentication because they alone have access to several ... offering as a way for consumers to pre-populate data fields on a Web site — such ... read more

The Morning Ledger: Manufacturers Scramble for More Cyber Insurance

For years, cyber insurance was purchased mostly by consumer ... claim, raising the risk for CFOs. China overseas M&A drops after last year’s record high. Chinese M&A has suffered setbacks due to regul... read more

Wonga collapse leaves Britain's other payday lenders in firing line

Wonga had already been struggling ... to start managing claims on automatic credit card limit increases and doorstep loans. The Consumer Finance Association, a trade group representing short-term lend... read more