On September 3, 2020, the Ca Department of company Oversight (DBO) announced it has launched an official research into whether Wheels Financial Group, LLC d/b/a LoanMart, previously certainly one of California’s biggest state-licensed automobile name loan providers, “is evading California’s newly-enacted interest caps through its present partnership with an out-of-state bank.”
In conjunction with the California legislature’s passing of AB-1864, that will provide the DBO (to be renamed the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation) new supervisory authority over particular formerly unregulated providers of customer monetary solutions, the DBO’s statement can be an unsurprising but nevertheless threatening development for bank/nonbank partnerships in Ca and through the entire nation. Continue reading “Ca Dept. of company Oversight launches lender that is“true research of automobile title lender’s partnership with Utah bank”