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The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office in 2014 filed suit against venture capital-backed Think Finance alleging the firm had utilized illegal tribal lending and “rent-a-bank” schemes to circumvent Pennsylvania usury laws. In mid 2017, the Pennsylvania AG added Chicago-based private equity…
Last Friday, consumer advocates the National Consumer Law Center, the Center for Responsible Lending, Americans for Financial Reform and People’s Action sent letters to the private equity firms mentioned in our recent report calling on them to abide by…
An article from Huffington Post, “Prestige Predators: Private Equity Cashes In On Payday Lending” features our new report Private Equity Piles into Payday and Other Subprime Consumer Lending, put together in collaboration with Americans for Financial Reform and…
From report “Private equity piles into payday lending and other subprime consumer lending” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) Chicago-based private equity firm Victory Park Capital, which features former US Senator Joe…
