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The Jesse Mecham Show

Payday Lender...Apps

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jesse discusses payroll advance apps.

 

 

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0:00.0

Hello, Wienab, my name is Jesse Meekham, and this is podcast number 394 for

0:10.4

Wienab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:16.0

Last week I talked about in the September 3rd issue of the Wall Street Journal, talked about

0:20.4

Giddlin Paper version still. I like to hold the paper. I like my fingers to be a little dirty at the end to get the little ink on the fingers. I like the feel of the paper. And anyway, side note. So this other article right above the one I shared with you last week is called Pay App Startups Draw Scrutiny.

0:39.0

What's funny is, California's proposed legislation talking about how these

0:45.0

these payroll advance technologies are coming along

0:49.0

and how they're acting quite a bit like payday lenders

0:52.0

and payday lenders are heavily regulated.

0:54.0

So California has proposed legislation, proposed legislation

0:59.0

sponsored by Payactive and it has support from other industry participants who see the bill

1:06.3

as a way to sanction their business model as non-lenders and set standards to prevent

1:11.1

abusive practices.

1:14.0

All too often you find out that the industry

1:16.9

is writing their own regulations.

1:19.2

It happens all over the place.

1:20.8

Just look anywhere, not even closely, and you find it. And it's a way to ward off competition and entrench yourself more often than not.

1:31.0

So that's no surprise at all. That is very common for the industry to be writing the regulations.

1:36.0

But the Pay Apps themselves are interesting. You have several different kinds that, you know, you've got got Ernan the one that they've got

1:45.5

cabbage does these kind of quick or not cabbage that's a small business lender I

1:50.6

don't like either but cashable as another one there are a ton and they're

1:55.2

popping up like crazy the article said that they're quote tapping into

1:59.5

thirst for fast cash for millions of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck.

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