Cash-strapped consumers are being shown a new place to find money: their driveways. Short-term lenders, seeking a detour around newly toughened restrictions on payday and other small loans, are ...
Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of ...
People who put their cars up as collateral for what are supposed to be short-term emergency loans are being hit with interest rates of 300 percent, a high rate of repossession and long repayment ...
More than 1.1 million households in the U.S. used auto title loans in 2013, according to a survey by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. - the first time the agency has included such loans in its ...
Even with a full-time job, Shanell White found herself in financial straits. Her 12-year-old car needed new brakes. On top of rent and college courses, she became legal guardian for her infant niece, ...
High-interest lenders have circumvented an Arizona ban on payday loans by migrating to auto-title loans, including those where borrowers don't own their vehicles, a study critical of the practice has ...
LoanStar Title Loans has dozens of storefronts like this one, in Grand Prairie, where a $600 loan will cost more than $1,600 to pay back. LoanStar's parent company, Wellshire Financial Services, took ...
Rosa Mobley never imagined her debts would swell so large. There were times when the 66-year-old widow, who struggles by on Social Security and her pension as a school crossing guard in Chicago, fell ...
Title loan companies throughout South Florida are preparing to close their doors or file lawsuits against county governments, as tough new local regulations take much of the profit out of the business ...