Nationwide payday financing chains are desperate to transfer to Maryland given that General Assembly considers exempting such organizations from a law that limits the interest levels allowed on customer loans.
If legislators approve the alteration, it will probably start the doorway for the chains to create store in Maryland and start making high-interest, short-term loans to customers who will be borrowing against their next paycheck.
“they’dn’t be working this difficult to get legislation into it,” said Maxine Adler, an Annapolis lobbyist hired by a national association of payday lenders if they didn’t feel there was a good market in Maryland and didn’t want to get.
Maryland has a version that is home-grown of financing — through locally owned check-cashing outlets that run as tiny, stand-alone shops or in shops such as for example alcohol shops and pawnshops.Continue reading