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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…
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…
On January 4, private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Varde Partners announced that they are acquiring Fortress Investment Group’s stake in OneMain Holdings, the largest subprime installment lender in the country. The acquisition is expected to close during…
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…
