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New coalition fights payday loans
A number of social policy groups have joined forces in a campaign to put limits on payday lending in Texas.
Read more News Source - Waco Tribune-Herald
Publish date - 06:56:53 09/02/10

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State payday loan fight a Madigan family affair
The Watchdogs: The effort to crack down on "payday loans" in Illinois claimed a big victory in the Legislature last spring: passage of a state law setting new caps on the high interest rates lenders charge and also expanding the state's tracking system to help ensure that consumers don't end up borrowing more than they can repay.
Read more News Source - Chicago Sun-Times
Publish date - 08:00:25 08/31/10

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Madigan Family Benefits From Payday Loan Bill
Representative Michael J. Madigan In the spring, payday loan reform passed the Illinois legislature , capping high interest rates for consumers and expanding a tracking system to keep tabs on lenders. While the measures certainly benefited borrowers of high interest loans, the Sun Times reports that the Madigan family benefited from the loan as well. Lobbyist Jordan Matyas, son-in-law to House ...
Read more News Source - Chicagoist
Publish date - 18:51:31 08/30/10

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Office Of Consumer Protection Warns Residents About Door-To-Door Sales
The State Office Of Consumer Protection is warning folks about high pressure door-to-door sales tactics. It says an Illinois-based company that has a C-minus rating from the Better Business Bureau has been pushing its products.
Read more News Source - KTVM Butte
Publish date - 04:05:22 09/02/10

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Financial Services on Aisle Nine: Wal-Mart Gives Banks a Run for Their Money
Despite being pilloried by the public lately, a banker's lot can't be all that bad. At least, that's what Wal-Mart executives must be thinking. Over recent months, there has been a flurry of announcements from the world's largest retailer about the expanding array of banking products sold at its U.S. stores. Company officials insist that their main aim is to reach the "unbanked" and "underbanked ...
Read more News Source - Knowledge at Wharton
Publish date - 20:13:43 09/01/10

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Data Age Named to Gulf Coast Business Review 2010 Gulf Coast 500
LARGO, FL--(Marketwire - September 1, 2010) - Data Age Business Systems (Data Age), a leading provider of Financial Transaction Software Solutions, including the PawnMaster software program, was named to the 2010 Gulf Coast 500, a list of the largest companies headquartered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, from Tampa to Naples.
Read more News Source - Marketwire
Publish date - 14:31:57 09/01/10

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Finance and Banking
The passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act") represents the most ambitious reform of the laws governing the financial industry and corporate America since the Great Depression.
Read more News Source - Mondaq
Publish date - 12:29:03 09/01/10

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Data Age Named to Gulf Coast Business Review 2010 Gulf Coast 500
LARGO, FL--(Marketwire - 09/01/10) - Data Age Business Systems (Data Age), a leading provider of Financial Transaction Software Solutions, including the PawnMaster software program, was named to the 2010 Gulf Coast 500, a list of the largest companies headquartered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, from Tampa to Naples. All of the companies are ranked by 2009 revenues, in millions, according to each ...
Read more News Source - Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Publish date - 14:30:44 09/01/10

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SCF bondholders rejoice, told to spend cash wisely
South Canterbury Finance investors, including all bondholders but not preference shareholders, have been told to spend their cash wisely when they are reimbursed by the government a total of $1.6 billion following the company’s receivership today. In addition, the government is negotiating a loan of up to $175 million to the receivers for repayment of prior charges over South Canterbury’s assets ...
Read more News Source - New Zealand's National Business Review
Publish date - 01:42:28 08/31/10

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Bicyclist Struck, Killed on Dan Ryan Expressway
Photo by John Russel . AS listed in yesterday's "Extra Extra," Edgewater resident Christopher Hippchen was struck and killed in northbound express lanes of the Dan Ryan expressway while riding his bicycle. Illinois State Police say Hippchen, who didn't own a car and worked part-time as a cook for a catering company at Soldier Field, was hit around 9 p.m. Sunday after being stuck by an SUV near ...
Read more News Source - Chicagoist
Publish date - 13:51:33 08/31/10

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BBB warns public about fraudulent, aggressive collection calls
Consumers report being threatened with arrest.
Read more News Source - Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch
Publish date - 15:36:24 08/31/10

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Garnett vows to put people before party in attorney general’s office
State attorney general is one of those elected offices that ought to be non-partisan, but too often isn’t. Rarely has this been more true than with incumbent Attorney General John Suthers. Again and again he has used his office to involve the state of Colorado in lawsuits brought in other states to advance or defend Republican causes. Democratic challenger Stan Garnett was motivated to run for ...
Read more News Source - The Daily Sentinel
Publish date - 21:48:24 08/31/10

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Mell Relative, Once at the Center of Blago Family Feud, Charged With Tax Evasion
Photo by Jason L. Parks . Frank Schmidt, one-time owner of a Joliet landfill that was at the center of an epic feud between Chicago Ald. Dick Mell and former Governor Rod Blagjoevich, has been charged with federal tax evasion . According to federal authorities, Schmidt has been charged with five counts of tax evasion for failing to pay $2 million in tax on $11 million of income. Schmidt is ...
Read more News Source - Chicagoist
Publish date - 14:21:27 08/31/10

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Pay1Day Releases Warning to Customers Regarding Recent Collections Scam
Pay1Day, a direct online lender that cares about the privacy of their customers' personal finance information, is issuing this press release as a warning in hopes of helping to put a stop to this scam.
Read more News Source - PRWeb via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 08:25:12 08/31/10

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Commercial real estate failures easier to spot than residential woes
Skeletons of unfinished buildings, weed-infested vacant lots for projects that never got off the ground and for-sale signs are the more visible remnants of an overextended market caught in the jaws of the biggest financial crisis and economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Read more News Source - Dallas Morning News
Publish date - 17:40:34 08/30/10

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