One company’s unusually bitter and public fight with Connecticut is providing a rare, if largely one-sided, view of what it’s like to fall into the cross hairs of state regulators.
Department of Banking
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CT House passes online financial protections
The state House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation Wednesday that would broaden consumer protections against on-line financial threats ranging from payday loans to identity theft.
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Tribal lenders claim right to charge 448% on loans in CT
An Oklahoma tribe and its allies are fighting a legal, advertising and social-media war in Connecticut, claiming a right as a sovereign government to make unlicensed short-term loans at astronomical interest rates in defiance of state usury laws.
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Jorge Perez, a banker, pol and activist, picked for banking post
Jorge Perez, the governor’s choice to oversee the banking industry in Connecticut, would bring a background in community banking, neighborhood activism and urban politics to the state Department of Banking.