APPLETON, Wis. — This city of 70,000 has five McDonald’s franchises, three Pizza Huts, four Starbucks shops — and 19 payday loan stores, brightly lighted storefronts with names like EZ Money and Check Into Cash that offer two-week loans…
State Rep. Josh Zepnick (D-Milwaukee), a member of the Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions, has introduced two consumer protection bills designed to help citizens who utilize relatively new and emerging financial services of cash…
A federal grand jury in Florida has indicted a handful of payday loan executives and their sales agent for their roles in a scam that raised over $1.6 million.
The local payday cash loan industry has launched an aggressive advertising campaign to try to persuade the D.C. Council to reverse a vote that would limit the fees charged on short-term loans.