FDIC guideline will allow payday along with other predatory lenders to skirt state usury regulations; AG Ellison joins bipartisan coalition urging withdrawal of guideline they say violates legislation, administrative authority
Minnesota Attorney General Ellison has accompanied a bipartisan coalition of 24 lawyers basic in opposing a proposition by the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) to preempt state usury laws and regulations that regulate payday along with other lending that is high-cost therefore rendering it easier for predatory lenders to benefit from customers. State usury laws and regulations prevent predatory lenders from benefiting from customers by asking interest that is high on loans. The FDIC’s proposed guideline would allow predatory lenders to circumvent state usury legislation through “rent-a-bank” schemes, by which federally controlled banks behave as loan providers in title only, thereby passing along their exemptions from state guidelines to non-bank predatory and payday lenders. Continue reading “Attorney General Ellison condemns effort that is federal let predatory loan providers benefit from customers”