We have plans for ourselves when we’re playing the game of life. We have all the hopes and dreams in the world to make it to the financial and spiritual peak of our respective mountains. The reality is sometimes the path getting there is hardly the shiny yellow-brick road we anticipated. Our contemporary reality is […]
There were some cliffhangers to end 2019 going into 2020 in the small dollar loan industry. From credit unions’ slow-but-steady cloud adoption strategies, fintech, and marketing automation. And who can forget the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s pending decision to rescind its own underwriting “ability-to-repay” requirement. Like any forward-thinking credit union leader or executive, you have […]
It is a tall order for the poor or underbanked to participate in the mainstream banking system today. So many individuals are hesitant to engage when they’re convinced they’re unable to out-maneuver the overdraft penalties and banking fees they know are on their way. Concerns like those are why the poor and under-engaged fail to […]
What a drama it’s been for small dollar lending these last 40 years. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, a series of federal law developments resulting in banking deregulation gave rise to the predatory payday lending storefronts of the early 1990s through this 21st century. Predatory lending certainly took advantage in the early ‘90s […]