Western Sky Ordered to Cease Payday Loans in Maryland
By Jer with Trihouse Consulting ~ The tribe payday loan business model has been around since at least the late 1990′s. In the “early days,” individual tribe members collaborated with lenders to circumvent state and province usury and licensing requirements. Although this rendition of the tribe sovereign model is no longer employed, there still remains outstanding litigation and regulatory challenges that continue. The Martin Web and Western Sky controversies are part of this ongoing story.
Western Sky has always described itself as “wholly owned by an individual member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe;” not by the tribe or any of its political subdivisions. It refers to itself as a Native American-owned business operating within the exterior boundaries of the reservation, a sovereign nation within the U.S.
Western Sky Financial, “located” on the Cheyenne River Reservation Timber Lake, S.D., has said it was not required to follow Maryland law because of tribal immunity, according to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
The Maryland labor department’s Division of Financial Regulation said Thursday it has issued a final cease and desist order against Western Sky, its owner Martin Webb and other related parties. The order also prohibits the company from collecting or attempting to collect on any loans made to Maryland consumers. The company has the right to appeal the final order to Maryland Circuit Court, said Mark Kaufman, commissioner of financial regulation.
With the aid of Wall Street and sophisticated tribe legal counsel, the payday loan industry has evolved significantly since the early days of what was once referred to as “the rent-a-tribe model.” Much like the gaming industry, there are today, legal methods and strategies available that enable geographically challenged tribes lacking sophisticated resources to collaborate with “capital” and expertise in serving the millions of consumers who want and need small dollar loan products to help them solve their temporary, short-term financial challenges.
For more on this topic: Allen Parker at Consultants4Tribes.com
Google Matt Cutts Discusses Payday Loan Searches
Google has “killed” a lot of payday loan lead generators and payday loan affiliates. Google’s Matt Cutts discusses this specifically here: Google PDL Searches A short video is included.
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By Jer Trihouse: Raj Date, a former director of The CFPB has formed a consultancy to focus on bank sponsored payday loan/small dollar loan products. He’s quoted as saying, “Is it a product that is expensive because it can be? Because overdraft sets a price umbrella, and traditional payday sets a price umbrella,” so banks say, ” ‘Whatever, just a little bit lower than that.’ But that doesn’t mean that pricing won’t come in if there’s competition.”
In the piece at American Banker, Mr. Date goes on to say, “Developing a better short-term loan is “the single most promising thing” in the portion of the consumer financial industry that serves low-income and other financially underserved customers.”
In essence, Mr. Date states that he thinks banks are simply charging more than they need to. Banks have the luxury of having a “captured customer, access to more credit data decisioning tools, superior marketing tools and lower fraud costs and a much lower cost of capital.” (He’s certainly correct regarding his last point! Banks can access capital from the Fed for less than 1%!) “So, there is nothing about the product that isn’t cheaper than the alternatives, overdraft and traditional payday.”
There’s just one point Mr. Date fails to acknowledge. A bank cannot compete with a nimble, entrepreneurial enterprise employing the multitude of credit decisioning tools already available to small dollar lenders, employment of social media, 24/7 loan proceed delivery channels, smart phone web site presence and most importantly, the millions of relationships we small dollar loan providers already enjoy with our customers.
Read the entire American Banker piece here: EX-CFPB Director launches Payday Loan Consultancy
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Store operators in the payday loan business, car title lending, cash for gold, BHPH, etc. don’t get this: YOU MUST figure out the mobile marketing challenge you face TODAY. Customer’s are “looking” for you on their phones. If your biz looks like crap on their phone, you just lost another customer!
I’m NOT suggesting you invest $1000′s of bucks on a “full-on” mobile friendly web site that processes customer applications, captures their bank acct. info, nabs their SS#… Hell, today, store owners don’t even need a traditional website! Go check out a company FOCUSED on building phone friendly websites for our industry. It’s $200 one-time!
What’s one customer worth to you? Just enable a customer to FIND you on their phone and “click-to-call” your store or find your location on Google Maps!
Get started at EZMobileToday.com This is a “no-brainer!” Enable your next customer to call, email or text your store.
And call to thank me when you get that new customer! I’m serious!! Jer – Trihouse
Payday Loan Marketing Ideas
Don’t Give Up On Email.
Yeah sure, we’re huge fans of serving our customers via traditional websites, mobile websites, blogs, TV, radio, direct mail… If you’re a Lender or a Vendor, you’d better be using all these channels to compete.
Email? Many of our clients have been discounting email lately. Everything they hear and read is focused on mobile, social and text messaging. Knuckleheads who pontificate about the decline of email “open rates” and “don’t have a dog in the hunt” discourage building your brand and “touching” your customers via email.
HOGWASH! Build your LIST. Lead your clients to your website, your Facebook page, your Twitter account…Train your employees to capture your customer’s contact info; EVERYTHING! And DON’T FORGET to share ALL YOUR company info as well.
The message? Don’t give-up on email. Let your client choose what works best for them. Allow your client to embrace you as tight as they like 
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Texas CSO-Cab Payday Loan Business
Hello All – as of Monday 5/27 the Regular Session of the 83rd Texas Legislature closed. As you may know, there were no Credit Access Business bills passed and regulations remain the same as they were prior to the Session. A “Special Session” was called and there are only a handful of topics reported to be up for discussion, namely Redistricting.
Going back to February when our group became involved, we have learned much about how the process works in Austin, and also understand first hand that smaller Credit Access Businesses can make a difference. The small business owner-operator/entrepreneur in Texas has a lot to say, and fortunately for us we had an audience this Session with many Representatives and Senators at the Capitol who listened.
We now have some breathing room and freedom to operate without concern of implementing the long list of regulations & rules we saw proposed in many bills this Spring. However, the concern over local City Ordinances remains, and our group should remain mobilized and informed about how we can work against the spread of these burdensome and impractical restrictions.
Our group has the opportunity to prepare for next Session which begins January 2015. We’ll need to work against City Ordinances as mentioned, and also now it will be wise to address many of the issues we saw brought up by industry opponents, such as: “Cycle of Debt,” Income thresholds for loan amounts, refinance limits, and extended payment plans. Planning ahead and staying focused on what we know our opponent’s arguments might be in 2015, will serve us well in the future.
Efforts are underway to finalize an operator Compliance/Education/PR Program that will hopefully command the attention of Lawmakers, Regulators, and Consumer Advocates, and accomplish the objective of getting our Industry ahead of the curve next time around. Updates on the progress of this program, called Borrow Smart, will be sent out when available with a possible roll-out date in July 2013.
Best,
Michael B.
Michael Brown
C.A.B. Consulting
Email Michael: Michael@CreditAccessBusiness.com
Call Michael: 214-293-8676
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Payday loan customers access our products via a multitude of channels. Old-school methods still work ) Jer Trihouse
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More BS: UK Payday Loan Study
With few exceptions, the media and so-called consumer advocacy groups do a pathetic job of reporting on the payday loan industry! At least they’re consistent; their bias makes me gag. The old saying, “If you say it enough times, it becomes the truth” is their strategy. For your “enlightenment” Dear Reader, a quote and a link to another feeble attempt to attack our small dollar loan industry: “Citizens Advice Bureau received 1270 survey responses (out of 4.1 million UK loans). Selected results, covering some of the main issues for consumers such as how much the loan is going to cost and how it needs to be repaid, are set out below.” A link to the “Survey???”
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