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Last week, community and Puerto Rican diaspora groups sent a letter to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli asking him to hold off on further investments with private equity firms TPG Capital and Blackstone Group until they halt foreclosures in…
Earlier this week Julio López Varona, the lead signer on recent letters to Blackstone and TPG Capital calling on them to halt foreclosures in Puerto Rico and provide a path for families to stay in their homes, wrote…
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) Private equity firm JLL Partners of New York took payday lender…
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) Lone Star Funds, a private equity manager with $70 billion in…
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) In September 2008, San Francisco-based private equity manager FFL Partners acquired Curo Financial…
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) New York-based Fortress Investment Group is the majority owner of installment lender OneMain…
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) Community Choice Financial (CCFI) was formed in 2011 by CheckSmart, owned by private…
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) Blackstone Group, led by Stephen Schwarzman, who chairs President Trump’s Strategic and Policy…
