Download or read book Payday Lenders Vehicle Title Loans and Small Value Financing written by Christopher K. Odinet and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market for payday lenders, businesses that provide vehicle title loans, and other small-value financing players is rife with controversy. Some see them as predatory lenders that weave a web of never-ending debt designed to capture the weakest and most economically vulnerable of society. However, advocates of these financial institutions argue that for many Americans who are otherwise shut out of the conventional lending market, these players provide the only viable source of credit in times of economic hardship. Whatever the view, these businesses, their borrowers, and the credit markets that they together comprise are often referred to in legal and economic research and literature as the "fringe economy." And interestingly, aside from a patchwork of state law rules, this area of the financial services sector is fairly unregulated.However, on Thursday, March 26, 2015 the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report outlining the agency's long heralded plans to impose nation-wide regulations on the fringe economy. The first part of this article gives an overview of the fringe economy, the types of services and products it provides, and gives a snapshot of existing, state-based regulations. The second part goes into the nuts and bolts of the proposed rules.
Download or read book Supplemental Findings on Payday Payday Installment and Vehicle Title Loans and Deposit Advance Products written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Payday and Car Title Lenders Drain 8 Billion in Fees Every Year written by Delvin Davis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payday and car title loans are small dollar, short-term, high-cost loans that often enter borrowers into a cycle of debt that is difficult to repay. On a state level, this has produced varying levels of regulation to curtail financial abuse. According to our estimates, payday and car title loans combined cost borrowers over $8 billion annually across the country.
Download or read book Payday Vehicle Title and Certain High Cost Installment Loans Us Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regulation Cfpb 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans (US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regulation) (CFPB) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans (US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regulation) (CFPB) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau or CFPB) is issuing this final rule establishing regulations creating consumer protections for certain consumer credit products and the official interpretations to the rule. First, the rule identifies it as an unfair and abusive practice for a lender to make covered short-term or longer-term balloon-payment loans, including payday and vehicle title loans, without reasonably determining that consumers have the ability to repay the loans according to their terms. The rule exempts certain loans from the underwriting criteria prescribed in the rule if they have specific consumer protections. Second, for the same set of loans along with certain other high-cost longer-term loans, the rule identifies it as an unfair and abusive practice to make attempts to withdraw payment from consumers' accounts after two consecutive payment attempts have failed, unless the consumer provides a new and specific authorization to do so. Finally, the rule prescribes notices to consumers before attempting to withdraw payments from their account, as well as processes and criteria for registration of information systems, for requirements to furnish and obtain information from them, and for compliance programs and record retention. The rule prohibits evasions and operates as a floor leaving State and local jurisdictions to adopt further regulatory measures (whether a usury limit or other protections) as appropriate to protect consumers. This book contains: - The complete text of the Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans (US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regulation) (CFPB) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Download or read book When Payday Loans Go Wrong written by Steve Perry and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how a catastophic spiral of payday loan debt was conceived, endured and defeated. This is the story of Steve Perry's battle against the industry, a fight which has left its scars on both sides, it's a story to give strength to all of those who are in payday hell.
Download or read book Payday Loans and Deposit Advance Products written by Consumer Financial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has engaged in an in-depth review of short-term small dollar loans, specifically payday loans extended by non-depository institutions and deposit advance products offered by a small, but growing, number of depository institutions to their deposit account customers. This review began with a field hearing held in Birmingham, Alabama in January 2012. At that event, CFPB Director Richard Cordray noted that "the purpose of the field hearing, and the purpose of all our research and analysis and outreach on these issues, is to help us figure out how to determine the right approach to protect consumers and ensure that they have access to a small loan market that is fair, transparent, and competitive." Director Cordray went on to state that "through forums like this and through our supervision program, we will systematically gather data to get a complete picture of the payday market and its impact on consumers," including how consumers "are affected by long-term use of these products."
Download or read book Consumer Finance Law written by Adam J. Levitin and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer Finance: Markets and Regulation is the first law school text to focus on consumer financial services markets and their regulation. Structured around clear expository text and realistic problem sets, the book provides comprehensive coverage of the regulation of consumer credit, payments, and financial data markets by federal, state, and private law, including detailed coverage of the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a powerful new federal regulatory agency. The book also acquaints students with the full range of consumer financial products, how they operate, the risks and policy issues they raise, and their regulation. In so doing, the book provides an applied look at how regulatory agencies work, offering students a practical look at how statutes and regulations interact and how regulatory agencies enforce them. Professors and students will benefit from: Detailed coverage of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a new federal regulatory agency with broad authority over consumer credit, payment, deposit, and financial data markets Comprehensive treatment of consumer credit regulation, including mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans, and small dollar loans, as well as credit disclosures, usury, and fair lending regulation State-of-the-art coverage of consumer payment systems, with detailed coverage of electronic payment systems (credit cards, debit cards, ACH) and mobile wallets Coverage of topics not found elsewhere in law school curriculum, including anti-money laundering regulations, behavioral economics, fair lending laws, and consumer financial data privacy and data security Free online statutory supplement
Download or read book Are Bigger Companies Better for Low Income Borrowers written by Jim Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payday lending and title lending markets are dominated by a small number of large lenders. Recent policy intervention into these markets in Colorado has increased this dominance as some smaller lenders have closed shop. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on the verge of regulating payday loans, creating the potential for larger companies to gain an even more prominent place in this market nationally. But, before we implement regulation that could unintentionally bolster large lenders, we need to ask: Are bigger companies better for low-income borrowers?This Article attempts to answer this question by presenting evidence from a study of the advertisements on 189 payday and title lending storefronts in Houston, Texas and on 30 lender websites. Accepting on their face the views of payday and title lending opponents about what is “good” for low-income borrowers, I find mixed results. On some of the metrics I used, large lenders appear better for low-income borrowers, but on others, small lenders perform better. For instance, more large lenders were in compliance with Texas law at the time of my study, but a larger percentage of big companies charged above average prices for loans. Additionally, larger companies were also more likely to primarily have pictures of racial minorities on their websites while a smaller percentage of larger companies had websites dominated by pictures of females.In addition to comparing large and small lenders, I present general information about payday and title lending advertising. Overall, I found a low level of compliance with Texas disclosure laws. Additionally, I found that despite consistent claims to the contrary in the literature, there is substantial price differentiation among lenders in Houston. Finally, the pictures on websites are most likely to be females from a minority group, suggesting that perhaps lenders are targeting these audiences.
Download or read book Fringe Banking written by John P. Caskey and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1994-08-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cogently argued, fills an important gap in the literature, and is accessible to undergraduates." —Choice "Dismantles the mythology surrounding pawnshops and check-cashing outlets, and demonstrates that they are no longer on the fringe of our financial system but integral to it."—San Francisco Bay Guardian In today's world of electronic cash transfers, automated teller machines, and credit cards, the image of the musty, junk-laden pawnshop seems a relic of the past. But it is not. The 1980s witnessed a tremendous boom in pawnbroking. There are now more pawnshops thanever before in U.S. history, and they are found not only in large cities but in towns and suburbs throughout the nation. As John Caskey demonstrates in Fringe Banking, the increased public patronage of both pawnshops and commercial check-cashing outlets signals the growing number of American households now living on a cash-only basis, with no connection to any mainstream credit facilities or banking services. Fringe Banking is the first comprehensive study of pawnshops and check-cashing outlets, profiling their operations, customers, and recent growth from family-owned shops to such successful outlet chains as Cash American and ACE America's Cash Express. It explains why, despite interest rates and fees substantially higher than those of banks, their use has so dramatically increased. According to Caskey, declining family earnings, changing family structures, a growing immigrant population, and lack of household budgeting skills has greatly reduced the demand for bank deposit services among millions of Americans. In addition, banks responded to 1980s regulatory changes by increasing fees on deposit accounts with small balances and closing branches in many poor urban areas. These factors combined to leave many low- and moderate-income families without access to checking privileges, credit services, and bank loans. Pawnshops and check-cashing outlets provide such families with essential financial services thay cannot obtain elsewhere. Caskey notes that fringe banks, particularly check-cashing outlets, are also utilized by families who could participate in the formal banking system, but are willing to pay more for convenience and quick access to cash. Caskey argues that, contrary to their historical reputation as predators milking the poor and desperate, pawnshops and check-cashing outlets play a key financial role for disadvantaged groups. Citing the inconsistent and often unenforced state laws currently governing the industry, Fringe Banking challenges policy makers to design regulations that will allow fringe banks to remain profitable without exploiting the customers who depend on them.
Download or read book Consumer Protection in the Used and Subprime Car Market written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Military Lending Act Five Years Later Impact on Servicemembers the High cost Small Dollar Loan Market and the Campaign Against Predatory Lending written by Jean Ann Fox and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after landmark legislation took effect to protect servicemembers and their families from predatory lending, this study has found that the Military Lending Act (MLA) has reduced some forms of abusive credit but allows some equally harmful loans to flourish. The MLA delivered servicemember protections recommended by a 2006 Department of Defense study on the impact of predatory lending on military families and readiness. The law set a 36 percent inclusive rate cap on credit and banned loans secured by the servicemember's bank account, vehicle or pay check. Under rules adopted by the DoD, MLA protections apply to payday loans, car title loans, and tax refund anticipation loans, but not to military installment loans, rent-to-own transactions or retail sales financing. Predatory lenders are exploiting definitional loopholes in the MLA to offer abusive loans the DoD attempted to prohibit. Some problematic credit products targeted at servicemembers are not covered by DoD rules. Servicemembers are not protected from bank credit products that are similar to payday lending. MLA protections extended by Congress with bi-partisan support have yet to be fully implemented. Enforcement tools need to be strengthened to improve compliance with the law.
Download or read book Using Advertisements to Diagnose Behavioral Market Failure in Payday Lending Markets written by Jim Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payday and auto title loans have caused heated debate among policymakers, academics, and consumer and industry groups across the country. The majority of consumers using these short-term, small-dollar, high-cost loans are lower-income Americans. One side of the debate argues consumers' use of short-term loans is rational because borrowers need access to credit and lack superior alternatives. The other side argues that lenders are exploiting consumers' systematically poor decision making. This Article employs a novel research method to assess which side is right. By focusing attention on the advertisements that payday and title lenders use, it offers new perspectives on whether consumers who take out these loans are acting rationally or myopically. To do so, I offer the first comprehensive empirical study of advertisements for payday and title loans. I report on research I conducted that coded information on advertisements at 189 payday and title lending storefronts and 27 websites. Using the advertisements to diagnose behavioral market failure, I find evidence that firms use advertising to exploit the ways in which payday and title lending customers deviate from the rational actor model. A rich description and analysis of the content of payday and title lending advertising enable us to assess new proposed regulations for payday and title lending introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) in March 2015. In addition to critiquing the proposed regulations, I offer a policy suggestion aimed at facilitating meaningful price competition in payday and title lending markets in hope of fixing an important behavioral market failure.
Download or read book Shortchanged written by Howard Jacob Karger and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An eye-opening read in the school of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel & Dimed . . . shines a bright light on the economy’s darker side.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Drive through a low-income neighborhood and you’re likely to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We’re awash in “alternative financial services” directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that’s not patently illegal is tolerated. Taking a hard look at this fringe economy, Karger shows that what seem to be small, independent storefront operations are actually part of a fully-formed parallel economy dominated by a handful of well-financed corporations, subject to little or no oversight, with increasingly strong ties to mainstream financial institutions. It is a hidden world, Karger writes, where a customer’s economic fate is sealed with a handshake, a smile, and a stack of fine print documents that would befuddle many attorneys. Filled with heartbreaking stories of real people trapped in perpetual debt, Shortchanged exposes the deceptive practices that allow these businesses to prey on people when they are most vulnerable. Karger reveals the many ways this industry has run amok, ruining countless people’s lives, and shows that it’s not just the poor but, more and more, maxed-out middle class consumers who fall prey to these devious schemes. Balancing compassion with a realistic awareness of the risks any business faces in working with an economically distressed clientele, Karger details hard-headed, practical recommendations for reforming this predatory industry.
Download or read book Financial Well Being written by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing consensus is emerging that the ultimate measure of success for financial literacy efforts should be improvement in individual financial well-being. But financial well-being has never been explicitly defined, nor is there a standard way to measure it. This report provides a conceptual framework for defining and measuring success in financial education by delivering a proposed definition of financial well-being, and insight into the factors that contribute to it. This framework is grounded in the existing literature, expert opinion, and the experiences and voice of the consumer garnered through in-depth, one-on-one interviews with working-age and older consumers.
Download or read book The Unbanking of America written by Lisa Servon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system: “Startling and absorbing…Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have in common? All three are victims of our dysfunctional mainstream bank and credit system. Nearly half of all Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, and income volatility has doubled over the past thirty years. Banks, with their high monthly fees and overdraft charges, are gouging their lower- and middle-income customers while serving only the wealthiest Americans. Lisa Servon delivers a stunning indictment of America’s banks, together with eye-opening dispatches from inside a range of banking alternatives that have sprung up to fill the void. She works as a teller at RiteCheck, a check-cashing business in the South Bronx, and as a payday lender in Oakland. She looks closely at the workings of a tanda, an informal lending club. And she delivers engaging, hopeful portraits of the entrepreneurs reacting to the unbanking of America by designing systems to creatively serve those outside the one percent. “Valuable evidence on the fragility of the personal economies of most Americans these days.”—Kirkus Reviews “An intelligent plea for financial justice…[An] excellent book.”—The Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report written by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.
Download or read book Quick Cash written by Robert Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing and accessible book, Mayer presents the history of payday lending using the colorful (and sometimes criminal) city of Chicago as a case in point. With an eye to the future, Mayer also aptly assesses the consequences of high-interest lending - both for the people who borrow at such steep prices and for society as a whole.-publisher description.
