payday lender
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The companies operate in a legal gray area that allows them to function much like a payday lender but without the consumer-protection rules that govern those businesses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2023
The original rule would have limited how often a payday lender could attempt to take money from a customer’s account, addressing advocates’ complaints that they were running up significant overdraft penalties.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2019
Seventy-two percent said they received better treatment from a payday lender than from a bank or credit card company, and 75 percent said they were likely to recommend payday loans to friends and family.
From Washington Times • Feb. 26, 2019
In addition to voting to more closely monitor firms under the moratorium on foreclosures in Puerto Rico, the state recently pulled money out of a private equity firm that had acquired a so-called payday lender.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018
In other words, some borrowers simply did not need to borrow from a payday lender, but were attracted towards these high-cost, short-term loans anyway.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2018
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