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Time to Stop the Vultures

Filed in Delaware by on April 27, 2012 2 Comments

Yesterday, El Som had a post about pending legislation, including HB 289, which would put restrictions on payday lenders. It seems as though there is some push back from Democratic leaders who want nothing to do with this important and consumer-friendly legislation. As El Som wrote: Helene Keeley’s payday loans bill, HB 289, is on […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 5, 2012

Filed in National by on April 5, 2012 32 Comments
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 5, 2012

A glimpse inside the Delaware Way, and what it has wrought. Helene Keeley’s legislation seeking to reign in predatory lending in the form of payday loans, made it out of committee. But not before one of Delaware’s most malevolent lobbyists got an interest rate cap stripped from proposed legislation. Which, of course, wasn’t enough for him. From today’s News-Journal story:

Speaking for the Online Lenders Alliance, a payday-lending trade group, lobbyist Dave Swayze said efforts to curtail short-term lending fly in the face of Delaware’s landmark Financial Center Development Act, the 1981 law that eliminated the state’s usury statutes and allowed banks to charge unlimited interest rates. “We will let the marketplace, we will let the buyer and seller, the contract entered into by them, determine the terms of the loan,” he said.

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