Spate of Lawsuits Claim Financial Institutions are Helping Payday Lenders to Break the Law
A series of lawsuits against ten banks and one credit union claim that the financial institutions should have known that their online payday lending accountholders were breaking the law. Specifically, the suits filed in federal courts claim that by processing transactions for these companies the financial institutions helping them to exceed usury ceilings and break other laws. [5/22]