The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) announced a settlement with Cottonwood Financial, Ltd., which does business under the name Cash Store. Cash Store is based in Irving, Texas and owns and operates roughly 340 retail lending outlets in Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. The Bureau found that in the course of …
Cecila Avila was finishing a work shift at a Walmart. David Gordon was at church. Darrell Reese was watching his granddaughter at home. Jessica Albritton had pulled into the parking lot at her job, where she packed and shipped bike parts. All four were arrested by an armed constable, handcuffed and booked into jail. They …
Question: Dear Steve, We had a title loan at TitleMax on a 2005 Olds Alero. We filed bankruptcy & it was discharged. We need the title so we can get rid of the car. John Answer: Dear John, First, let me be 100 percent clear, I am not an attorney. I can’t give you legal …
Question: Dear Steve, I received a title loan and paid it off. A couple of days later I had something devastating occur and needed another quick. Lonestar title loans was the only place open. I was told that the funds were not in office that we would have to meet at the bank after picking …
Attorney General Josh Stein was granted a temporary restraining order against the Miami, Fla.-based online payday lender Approved Financial, Inc. in a case he filed on May 15, 2019. The case alleges illegal, unlicensed lending practices, usury, unlawful debt collection, and unfair and deceptive practices. The temporary restraining order, entered by Superior Court Judge Stephen …
Question: Dear Steve, I took out a title loan on my car for emergency cash. That loan is at 116% interest. Then a few months later I applied, in person at a different lender, for an installment loan. That loan turned out to be a title loan on the same car. The stupid thing is, …
Question: Dear Steve, I took out a title loan due to an emergency about 1.5 years ago. I’m a single mom, newly divorced trying to make ends meet while bettering our lives. Unfortunately, in August 2016 I became unemployed. I contacted the finance company and explain the situation and they reminded me that I signed …
Yesterday the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against TitleMax parent company TMX Finance LLC for luring consumers into costly loan renewals by presenting them with misleading information about the deals’ terms and costs. The lender also used unfair debt collection tactics that illegally exposed information about debts to borrowers’ employers, friends, and …
“Dear Steve, I owe 3 credit cards totaling 4000 with an interest rate of 22.9%. BUT I also have a title loan of 9000 which has an interest payment of 525 a month. I know I was stupid but that’s water under the bridge now. My question is this, should I pay off my credit …
The Federal Trade Commission has taken action for the first time against two car title lenders, reaching settlements that will require them to stop their use of deceptive advertising to market title loans. A car title loan is typically a high cost, short-term loan, secured with the consumer’s car title. In administrative complaints issued against …
