Tweet On the same week that saw a super complaint being lodged against banks for fees associated with converting pounds to foreign currencies, another consumer group Which? Is waging war against poor practices in payday loans. Included in the complaint to the Office of Fair Trading is the allegation that payday loans also breached the [...]
James Kirby and Steve Austin talking finance. 20 May 2013 , 10:49 AM by Heather Stott James Kirby, from the Eureka Report, an online investment site talking finance with Steve Austin.
BAMBERG — Bamberg County Council, as it works to restructure the county’s mounting debt, has approved second reading of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of $8.4 million in revenue bonds. The council authorized the issuance of the installment purchase revenue bonds during a special called meeting on May 30, The bonds will be paid back [...]
HARRISBURG – A Senate bill to target new state higher education assistance grants to middle-class students would expand financial aid opportunities at the University of Scranton, a top school official told a Senate panel last week. The Middle Income Student Debt Reduction bill, if enacted, would help another 75 to 100 students at the university [...]
Social work is defined as the professional activity of helping individuals, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal. There is no doubt that our fine state is in desperate need of highly skilled social workers. To become a highly skilled social worker, however, [...]
Last in a series Don Antle, president of Options Credit Canada Ltd. and Options Credit Services Canada Ltd., is ostensibly in the business of helping consumers manage their debts, but his principal occupation appears to be fishing for investors. Antle and Options Credit Services are licensed as debt poolers by Consumer Protection BC (CPBC), which [...]
Are payday loans a good source of emergency cash? Thanks to misleading marketing, many of its consumers unfortunately think so. Payday lending stores are opening their doors in low-income neighborhoods at a rate equal to Starbucks [opening its doors] in affluent ones,” states NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond to illustrate how payday lenders are rapidly [...]
With the annual fees at a National Law University (NLU) hovering near the lakh and a half mark (Rs. 1,64,539/- per year to precise), an NLU education is a fairly expensive endeavor. With the addition of living expenses, the total cost of a five-year law course can easily touch Rs. 9 lakh. Thus it is [...]
There are times when it seems like no matter what we do, or how hard we try, there just doesnâ??t seem to be a way to get out from under debt. We are continually paying on credit cards, merchant cards, auto loans, utility bills, mortgages/rent and the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, what many [...]
Strict action will be taken against those banks which do not follow-up to settle the issues following decisions taken at bank adalats, said union minister K V Thomas. He was speaking at the bank adalat organised at the Collectorate in Kochi on Monday. Banks should have a healthy relationship with their customers and the general [...]