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Payday Lending Has Gone Mainstream

Most public contempt for payday lenders is piled up on mom and pop storefront operations - and the national chains that do nothing, but payday loans: public companies, such as advance America EZ Corp, and QC Holdings. These companies are cash loans to small general low-income consumers - and collects a fee of, perhaps, $ 20 for a loan of $ 200 for 2 weeks. The companies say these fees are necessary to cover their overhead costs, while critics argue that such transactions are loan sharks that consumers trapped in cycles of debt at interest rates three digits.

But inspired by the above-average business equity, it seems old - or at least to the old - the banks fall on the act. too. The Center for Responsible Lending reports that many banks are making loans to customers based on their checks direct deposit. Loans are then repaid in full when the direct deposit clears, which often leads customers to take another loan. According to the LCR, "The bank rate payday loan that consumers pay more than $ 900 in interest to borrow $ 500 to the bank for less than 6 months."

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The annualized interest rate often work out to about 365% - and recipients of Social Security include one quarter of all borrowers.

As government repression of for-profit colleges - which has a stated mission to ignore the many non-profit organizations engaged in similar activities - it seems that the fruit within reach of payday lenders can take the override the repression against the equally egregious practices of traditional lenders.

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Irony here is that banks have always been involved in the payday loan - but not directly. As reported consumerist way back in 2007, bankers who provide lead funding for the industry of payday loans are Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.

Something, perhaps, for the Office of Consumer Protection for financial news take a look at.