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15
Jun

Payday Loan and Other Micro-Lenders Evolving

Payday Loan Store Neon SignCFSI President & CEO Jennifer Tescher requests financial services professionals to make commitments to adopt best practices to better serve the 60+ million underbanked consumers in the U.S. today.

“We are asking that more companies commit to specific, measurable, high-impact initiatives that embody these Principles,” said Tescher. “By committing to these four guidelines, Embrace Inclusion, Build Trust, Promote Success, and Create Opportunity, we believe financial services companies can create both consumer and provider success and be a force for good in consumers’ lives.”

Payday loan consumers are becoming more hesitant to provide their financial data to Internet Lenders. The store model may experience a resurgence as a result. It’s up to the regulators and the legislators in the states and provinces!

For this complete story, go here: Three Companies Publicly Commit to Improving Consumers’ Lives through Financial Offerings

 

11
Jun

Payday Loan Vendors, Suppliers, Partners and Lenders

I receive sales pitches, requests for demos, marketing ideas… Every day. It’s tough to filter these opportunities out. (We’re extremely busy here in the loan sharking space.) So, during the first 15 second mental evaluation I perform to decide if followup makes sense, I look at the sender’s email address. If it’s hotmail, gmail, yahoo… DELETE! Use your company domain – ideally a .com – or don’t waste your time.
Jer@TrihouseConsulting.com

09
Jun

Bloomberg-Payday Loan Lead Generators

'Buzz Bee.BBM logo.500v382' photo (c) 2010, Pierre Rattini - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/Carter Doughtery with Bloomberg wrote an informative piece on payday loan lead generators.

Internet Lenders MUST solve these issues regarding consumer trust, privacy and data protection or they’ll never achieve the velocity they strive for, nor the ability to take market share, from the “brick-n-mortar” stores.

 

Ultimately, the only consumers who will choose to enter a relationship with an Internet lender, be it a state-licensed, choice-of-law, a tribe, or an offshore operation – this is assuming consumers can even make this determination – will be those consumers who reside in a state that does not have safe-harbor legislation in place nor can the consumer drive across their state border to get one (very common!).

 

It should be pointed out that a current trend in the payday loan/micro-lending industry is that lead generators are evolving into lenders as well! Their margins are getting squeezed badly and the data-scrubbers are getting very efficient.

 

 

Nice job Carter and thanks for the reference! Jer – PaydayLoanIndustryBlog.com


 

08
Jun

Federal Trade Commission Suit against Tribal Payday Lenders

Payday loans, tribe – sovereign nation model, the Federal Trade Commission… Interested in the latest developments? Go here for the latest news: Turtle Talk

05
Jun

Tribes, Payday Loans and Strategies

Tribe payday loansBloomberg posted an interesting piece today regarding the payday loan tribe – sovereign nation model. I would argue they are not necessarily evading state laws but they are certainly pissing-off a lot of us with substantial investments in our payday loan stores and Internet state-by-state licensing business models :o)

My buddy, Allen Parker with Consultants4Tribes.com contributed to the Bloomberg piece as well.

Here is the Bloomberg Piece on the payday loan tribe model…