Portfolio Recovery Associates is the nation’s largest debt collector and it could not be so without the long-time support it has received from commercial lenders at five of the country’s largest banks.

Just before Christmas, Portfolio Recovery Associates reached an agreement to borrow (more…)

If a way to make people with prepaid cards decide to save money remains an unsolved mystery, then perhaps one solution might be to bring the reward that could come from savings into the sightlines of those individuals.

The logic behind PiggyMojo, a small company whose new savings program is (more…)

Today’s Wall Street to Main Street connection centers on the financing of Dollar Financial.

Dollar Financial provides payday loans, pawn lending, check cashing, (more…)

Even though Advance America‘s sole business is to sell payday loans, consumer installment loans, and cash advances, the company had no trouble attracting lots of money from Wall Street.

The most recently available credit agreement announced by Advance (more…)

Cash America, one of the country’s largest providers of payday and pawn loans, has been able to borrow a lot of money from the Wall Street operations of some of our nation’s largest banks.

Recently (March 30, 2011), Cash America secured a new credit agreement that (more…)