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JLL Partners – ACE Cash Express

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…

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Lone Star Funds – DFC Global

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…

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FFL Partners - Speedy Cash/ Rapid Cash

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…

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Blackstone Group – Lendmark Financial Services

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…

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Warburg Pincus – Mariner Finance

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…

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