Small Payday Loans

New coalition fights payday loans

A number of social policy groups have joined forces in a campaign to put limits on payday lending in Texas.

Can microfinance be both moral and profitable?

There's a debate brewing in the world of do-gooder banking, pitting the father of microfinance Muhammad Yunus against a few entrepreneurs who have put an unlikely spin on Yunus' model of lending to the poor.

Pirates' Books Show Baseball Needs A Salary Cap

Pirates' Books Show Baseball Needs A Salary Cap

AG wants specifics on New Haven bank merger

Jobs, mortgage availability, business lending and new products and services are among the many issues Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wants First Niagara and NewAlliance banks to address in relation to a proposed $1.5 billion acquisition.

JACKSON COUNTY | Board reconsiders stand against payday loans

PASCAGOULA — Restricting the high amount of interest a quick-cash company charges its borrowers would put the company out of business, Scott Putnam told the Jackson County Board of Supervisors on Monday.

Professor Yunus Visits Atlanta, Presents a New Capitalism

Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics, but his academic knowledge had left him ignorant, he said in Atlanta.

Capping interest rates on high-cost loans may do more harm than good

The public supports a rate cap, but it would be a simplistic measure to a complex problem We all know that the poor pay more for everything but the unresolved question is – what do we do about it? This week's YouGov omnibus survey for Compass appeared to find overwhelming public support for a cap on interest rates as a solution: 68% of respondents believe there should be a lending rate cap to ...