Nor should it surprise you that a government agency called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to regulate an industry like the payday industry. In the United States, early, illegal payday-like loans trapped many borrowers, and harassment by lenders awoke the ire of progressives.
Once the details satisfy the pay day loan company the loan amount can be obtained the same day. Before that, I spent four months as a teller at a check casher in the South Bronx, and one month staffing the Predatory Loan Help Hotline at the Virginia Poverty Law Center.
However, credit checks or consumer reports through alternative providers such as Teletrack or DP Bureau, which typically will not affect your credit score, may be obtained by some service providers or lenders, in certain circumstances. The proposed rules would require lenders to assess a borrower's ability to repay, implement income verification measures, limit loan rollovers, and provide more disclosures related to payments.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn't have the power to ban payday lending outright, or to set a nationwide interest-rate cap, but it can act to prevent practices deemed unfair, abusive, or deceptive.� In March 2015, it announced that it was considering a set of rules for most small-dollar loans (up to $500) that consumers are required to repay within 45 days.
