Payday Lending

FTC Stops Elaborate Telemarketing Scam

August 24, 2015 This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) obtained final judgments against various defendants involved in an elaborate telemarketing operation which the FTC claimed swindled victims out of more than $7 million. The judgments, obtained in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, imposed monetary sanctions of $7.3 million, as […]

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New York State Reaches Settlement with Payday Lenders

Following recent regulatory actions undertaken by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding short term loans (also referred to as “payday loans” and “cash advances”) and the thirty-five (35) cease and desist letters issued in August 2013 by New York’s Department of Financial Services to online payday lenders,

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