WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D OH), Ranking person in the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, led a page with five Senators, opposing a proposed guideline because of the workplace regarding the Comptroller regarding the Currency (OCC) together with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which could eviscerate state legislation that restrict the attention prices on loans and permit unregulated predatory lending across the country.
The senators pushed back against the proposed rules, which would gut state laws by encouraging payday and other predatory lenders to use so called “rent a bank” schemes to evade state laws capping the interest rates they can charge on loans in a letter to OCC Comptroller Joseph Otting and FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams. In lease a bank plans, the banking institutions nominally fund the mortgage, however the payday or non bank loan providers do most of the work, organizing and gathering repayments from the loans, and bearing all or the majority of of this financial danger.
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