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What is the future of the CFPB in a Donald Trump Presidency?0
- Business, Politics
- November 28, 2016
The CFPB Under a Trump Administration: What You Need to Know The 2016 election to succeed President Barack Obama was a surprising turn of events that many Americans are still trying to understand. The prospect of the United States being presided by New York billionaire Donald Trump was an unlikely scenario, but now that voters
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CFPB Data on Car Title Loans May Be Inaccurate 1
- Business, Law
- June 9, 2016
CFPB Data on Car Title Loans May Be Inaccurate The car title loan is a valuable financial service that fills an important community need for capital. On May 18, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a study on short-term auto title loans, which has become the center of controversy. Academics have demonstrated that
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CFPB Proposes The Ability-to-Repay Provision 0
- Business, Law
- June 3, 2016
Since it was established in 2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has radically transformed several types of consumer lending. Though many of the CFPB’s new regulations have been targeted at the shoddy mortgage underwriting practices that led to the housing crash and subsequent recession between 2007 and 2009, the group has lately turned its attention
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The Top 10 Finance Apps for Your Phone 0
- Personal Finance
- May 31, 2016
Managing your finances can be quite the headache. Having to monitor multiple income sources and expenditure lines is not the easiest of tasks, especially since it is not the only task that requires attention and the possibility exists that you can forget some items you have spent money on in the recent past. Remember those
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Google to Ban Payday Ads but Invests in LendUp 0
- Personal Loans
- May 24, 2016
Google Inc. as we now know it is a subsidiary Alphabet Inc. Google Ventures (now known as GV) is also a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google and Google Ventures are individual entities which operate independently of each other. The primary function of Google Ventures is to make money by investing capital into “companies that push
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Personal Loans vs. Credit Cards 0
- Personal Loans
- April 15, 2016
You’ve found yourself in a delicate money situation that requires assistance. After weighing the options, among the numerous options that exist in the world, you’ve narrowed your findings down to two solid options. You must decide between the credit card and the personal loan? And even after making a list of pros and cons, you’re
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Flex Loans in Arizona, Friend or Foe?0
- Flex Loans
- April 4, 2016
In 2008, Arizona banned “payday” loans. The loans were criticized for taking advantage of citizens who had no credit scores or access to bank loans and, thus, were cornered into high-risk loans that could tag on even higher APRs. Despite this ban, payday loans are back under a new name –flex loans. It seems that
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