CFPB has released a White Paper on "Payday Loans and Deposit Advance Products."  The paper does not address online lending, except to note that it...

"The Pew study findings are consistent with what recent studies by the American Bankers Association and the FDIC have also shown: consumers have very limited...

  Online Lenders Alliance member companies continue to respond to growing demand   December 13, 2012 (Washington, D.C.) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...

"OLA believes consumers should have access to more credit options when they need it and in the safest, most convenient way.  We're concerned this legislation...

Adaptive Payments and ConnectMedia Ventures named runners up   The Online lenders Alliance (OLA) is pleased to announce that MicroBilt Corporation is the recipient of...

The following op-ed was posted on the American Banker website on September 19, 2012. By Lisa McGreevy  Last week the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. confirmed...

The following op-ed was posted on the American Banker website on January 25, 2012. CFPB Must Work with Legit Online Lenders, Stop Outlaws  By Lisa...

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times February 22, 2012, 5:43 a.m. Reporting from Washington— Federal regulators warned of a new scam in which so-called phantom debt...

Scam operators used personal data from consumers who had applied for short-term loans from payday lenders, bullying, threatening them into paying debts they didn't owe,...

By Carter Dougherty, Bloomberg  A federal judge in Chicago moved to shut businesses that allegedly used illegally obtained personal financial data to make threatening debt...

By Michael Tarm, Associated Press A phone scam in which callers in India posed as debt collectors bilked millions of dollars out of more than...

By Leah Hope  (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The Federal Trade Commission warns consumers about what they call fraudulent debt collectors. The agency says the companies included...

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