PYMNTS, February 6, 2022, Advocacy Groups Call on Regulators to Ban High-Interest Rate FinTech Loans
A coalition of advocacy groups wants U.S. regulators to look more into banks partnering with FinTechs to charge predatory interest rates that would be otherwise illegal in the lenders’ home states, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 4).
In a letter, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the NAACP and several other groups said that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and other agencies should crack down on banks doing “high-cost predatory lending” in their work with financial technology firms.
