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China’s P2P Lending Market Expected To Shrink In 2019

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The P2P lending market in China has been rife with scams and controversy for some time now. The lack of regulation led to the country’s biggest Ponzi scheme, protests across cities in China and losses for thousands of people. What’s more, no new companies have entered the market since August.

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FTC Calls For Tighter Small Biz Lending Scrutiny

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eyeing tighter scrutiny of small business lending practices as Commissioner Rohit Chopra calls on the regulator to combat predatory SMB loan contracts, reports in Bloomberg said on Wednesday (May 8). Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C.,

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China Fiscal Policy At Odds With SMB Lending

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29) that the government’s efforts to spur small business lending by pumping money into the financial services market has yielded only modest success. The publication pointed to the government’s conflicting policy of stricter lending rules as one reason why efforts to boost small business loan volumes hasn’t taken off.

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The current landscape for MBL regulation

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He showcased several statistics, including that, while the number of credit unions in the United States has declined since 2012, the number of credit union members in the U.S. Loans fully secured by a 1-4 family residential property that is the member’s primary residence are considered neither MBL or commercial loans by regulators.

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CFPB’s New Study Notes Bank Fees As A Hidden Cost Of Payday Lending

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As the nation waits and drama builds over expected new guidelines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on short-term lending, the government watchdog has issued a new report that indicates that the high cost of payday loans is even higher than most people think.

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Near-Record Low Rates Trigger Refi Wave Among US Homeowners

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mortgage refinancing is on the uptick as fears about fluctuating global markets cause a drop in interest rates , the Financial Times reported Sunday (Aug. percent in late 2012. I’m thinking of [the refi wave] more like a partial offset to [lending margin] pressure, as opposed to a meaningful earnings boost.”.

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CFPB announces new Deputy Director and additions to executive team

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Since April 2018, he has served as CFPB Policy Associate Director for Research, Markets, and Regulations since April 2018. She joined the Bureau in 2012 and has over 20 years of experience, having worked in consumer advocacy, community and economic development and on Capitol Hill.