For many years payday loans dominated the short term lending world. They offered quick cash to people who needed emergency money but at a very high cost. Traditional payday loans often came with ...

Since the beginning of 2023, ESET researchers have observed an alarming growth of deceptive Android loan apps, which present themselves as legitimate personal loan services, promising quick and easy ...

SpyLoan apps are everywhere and yet people keep falling for them. They promise easy loans with flexible repayment, but what they actually do is steal your personal data, including contacts, sensitive ...

If you ever find yourself in a financial bind and need instant access to cash to cover an unexpected expense, there’s an app for that. Whether you call them loan apps, borrow-money apps, cash advance ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday that apps that allow workers to access their paychecks in advance, often for a fee, are providing loans and therefore subject to ...

In brief: Predatory loan apps, which use sensitive information taken from users' phones to extort them when they can't pay their high-interest loans, were banned by Google last year. But that hasn't ...

Numerous laws have gone into effect this month in Maryland, but one law set to start in October has consumer protection experts unhappy with the state. They say the new Maryland law doesn’t go far ...

In a chilling narrative that unfolded over most of 2023, Ana Mariela Macías González, a 31-year-old state employee from Puebla, Mexico, found herself inundated with intimidating phone calls and texts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. In the last decade, payments have undergone a series of ...