March 2021

Washington, DC March 26, 2020- Today under the guise of a national crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal…

Representative JD Mesnard is wrong. Arizonans don't want "flex loans" from payday lenders. In an opinion piece this week, Mesnard defended his bill to allow 204% debt trap in Arizona without ever mentioning the interest rate.…

Jodi Dean has seen firsthand what a debt spiral can do to a family: stress, uncertainty, and years of reliance on high-yield credit.Now that the COVID-19 crisis is putting a million Canadians out of work, Dean has a clue where some of the…

Washington, DC July 7, 2020 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) held one this afternoon new final rule on payday loans and similar forms of credit, which makes the good CFPB Payday Rule 2017. In particular, this new…