Category: CFPB

08
Nov

Great News: CFPB Payday Loan Lending Rule Stayed! Opportunities Abundant

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Consumers WIN BIG! CFPB payday loan rule shut down!! And DEALS/OPPORTUNITIES are immense today.

Frankly, there has never been a better time to be “lending money to the masses.”

  • Demand for credit by borrowers is huge.
  • Stats are all over the map – depending on the source – but something like 60% of US households do not have access to $1000 cash in an emergency.
  • The big sub-prime lending season is almost upon us.
  • Jobs and ability to pay us back are through the roof.
  • Consumer optimism is sky high.
  • Washington D.C is not likely to devise too many roadblocks that could stifle all this enthusiasm.

THE BIG NEWS TODAY?

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel reversed a previous order and grantedContinue Reading..

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31
Oct

The CFPB- Like Giving Whiskey & Car Keys to Teenagers – More Good News for Lenders

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. [P.J. O’Rourke.]

It’s a fact that things are looking really good for those of us who make it our “business to lend money to the masses!”

Yeah, it’s competitive out there! Yep, there is a lot of fraud. FTD [first time defaults] are scaling up.

CAC ‘s are on the increase. Elevate revealed a funded loan costs them $225 each. Enova is close. On the other hand, we have portfolios with <$80 CAC’s and <12% FTPD’s.

The economy is blazing along, average folks feel good about Continue Reading..

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14
Dec

CFPB Employee Files Whistle Blower Charges: Payday Lender Ace Cash Express $10M Fine Bogus

Posted by / CFPB

A former CFPB examiner filed whistle blower charges against her employer, the CFPB, claiming she was terminated for refusing to falsify ACE Cash Express documents that resulted in a $10,000,000 fine levied against Ace!

The CFPB continues to be revealed as a reprehensible, rogue government organization whose management enabled their personal prejudices to attempt to destroy lawful, private and publicly traded businesses.

Cassandra Jackson, a former CFPB employee, filed documents strongly indicating she was fired for attempting to report that Ace Cash Express was adhering to CFPB rules and regulations.

It’s common knowledge that Ace Cash Express chose to pay the $10M fine rather than enter into costly, lengthy legal challenges against the one governmental agency having unfathomable deep pockets.

Ms. Jackson also asserts that she “encountered widespread racism and gender discrimination from management” and was eventually forced out due to an “incredibly hostile work environment.”

Jackson said her superiors at the CFPB insisted she falsify documents while she investigated Texas-based payday lender, Ace Cash Express.

Jackson said “she was asked to remove document evidence proving that Ace Cash Express adhered to CFPB regulations and her superiors insisted she write a report including findings she knew to be “false and fabricated.”

“I was specifically told to cite Ace Cash Express for a violation for which I had verified the company was in compliance and to state that Ace Cash Express did not provide, and that the CFPB did not receive, documents that would have satisfied the CFPB’s guidelines, despite having received that information from Ace Cash Express,” Jackson said.

Cassandra Jackson, a former CFPB employee, filed documents strongly indicating she was fired for attempting to report that Ace Cash Express was adhering to CFPB rules and regulations.

Cassandra Jackson, a former CFPB employee, filed documents strongly indicating she was fired for attempting to report that Ace Cash Express was adhering to CFPB rules and regulations.

 

CFPB Employee Files Whistle Blower Charges: Payday Lender Ace Cash Express $10M Fine Bogus

CFPB Employee Files Whistle Blower Charges: Payday Lender Ace Cash Express $10M Fine Bogus

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08
May

Fewer Companies Settle with CFPB

Posted by / CFPB

The Business of Lending is the Oldest Pofession.

The Wall Street Journal [which I have appeared in on several occassions] ran an interesting piece on the CFPB. The fact is, fewer companies are willing to settle with the CFPB today. This is huge. 

Fewer lenders willing to settle with CFPB = more investors/capital scrambling to enter the B2C and B2B alternative lending space. In spite of the competition from the balance sheet and off-balance sheet lenders, my phone is ringing. On the other end of the call? Entrepreneurs, capital groups, technologists… contemplating entrance into the business of lending. Lenders find it hard to ignore the 30%+ net returns available. The banks simply cannot service the demand for small dollar loans. Lenders continue to salivate due to the low cost of money coupled with ease of entry, mobile technology, tribe sovereignty, a more stable and defined state regulatory environment…

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11
Oct

CFPB Takes Broadside- Leadership Structure Ruled Unconstitutional!

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CFPB Leadership Structure Ruled Unconstitutional by D.C Circuit Court 🙂

This just in from Ben Lane:

“In a unanimous decision of the three justices of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court ruled that the CFPB’s current structure allows the director to wield far too much power, more than any other agency in the government.”

‘Because the Director alone heads the agency without Presidential supervision, and in light of the CFPB’s broad authority over the U.S. economy, the Director enjoys significantly more unilateral power than any single member of any other independent agency,’ the court writes.

And it gets worse for the CFPB.

“From the court’s decision:By “unilateral power,” we mean power that is not checked by the President or by other colleagues. Indeed, other than the President, the Director of the CFPB is the single most powerful official in the entire United States Government, at least when measured in terms of unilateral power. 

That is not an overstatement. What’s this mean  for the Payday Loan Industry?

What about the Speaker of the House, you might ask? The Speaker can pass legislation only if 218 Members agree. The Senate Majority Leader? The Leader needs 60 Senators to invoke cloture, and needs a majority of Senators (usually 51 Senators or 50 plus the Vice President) to approve a law or nomination. The Chief Justice? The Chief Justice must obtain four other Justices’ votes for his or her position to prevail. The Chair of the Federal Reserve? The Chair needs the approval of a majority of the Federal Reserve Board. The Secretary of Defense? The Secretary is supervised and directed by the President. On any decision, the Secretary must do as the President says. So too with the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General.

In short, the court writes, the director of the CFPB is the “single most powerful official in the entire U.S. Government, other than the President,” in terms of unilateral power.

Email TrihouseConsulting for a PDF of the Original D.C. Court Decision: Original Article Put “DC Circuit in Subject.”

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