It’s become increasingly common for high-cost payday lenders to attach various “fees” to loans provided to borrowers and ...

Payday lenders took in $2.4 billion in fees from cash-strapped consumers in a single year, a report from the Center for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, ...

Fair and responsible lending can be a valuable tool; predatory lending that traps borrowers in an expensive debt trap is not.

Their proposal to cap credit card interest at 10 percent is supposed to shield people from "exploitative" borrowing costs.

Ordinary Russians are resorting to desperate measures as they struggle to raise cash to fund their shopping bills and living ...

Russian workers are increasingly turning to payday loans charging exorbitant interest rates, as they struggle to make ends meet in the growing economic crisis. The Russian Central bank raised ...

The Russian Central bank raised interest rates late last year to a record high of 21%, in an attempt to curb spiralling ...

Lehi police are searching for victims of fraud after a months long investigation revealed an independent financial advisor ...

A stretch of Robert Street in West St. Paul is home to Dairy Queen, Little Caesars Pizza, R&B Liquors and a recent addition: ...

Finally, you could look for a peer-to-peer loan or a payday alternative loan (PAL) from a credit union, both of which may have more flexible credit requirements than traditional personal loans.

Instead, it's bound to cut off higher-risk borrowers from traditional credit and drive them into the arms of payday lenders and loan sharks. "Working Americans are drowning in record credit card ...