The CFPB’s white paper on payday and deposit advance loans received well-deserved criticism in a letter to Director Cordray from the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), a national trade organization for payday lenders.  

The CFSA’s letter characterizes the paper’s data as “demonstrably incomplete and misleading” and indicates that the paper’s “tone, conclusions, and specific language [seem] aligned with the type of rhetoric that more often comes from advocacy groups that are not always driven by facts, but rather are driven by agendas and unsupported, anecdotal information.” … Continue Reading