Find more information on the issues deeply affected by private equity investments:
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) Since taking office, Trump-appointed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, herself the former chair of…
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…
Private equity and real estate firm The Blackstone Group owns Invitation Homes, which late last year became the largest single-family rental landlord in the country when it merged with Starwood Waypoint Homes. The combined company owns over 82,000 homes…
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) New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus acquired installment lender Mariner Finance 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) 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) 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) 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) In recent years, a number of tech-enabled, venture capital-funded startups have sought to…
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) Chicago-based private equity firm Victory Park Capital, which features former US Senator Joe…
