Zack Fenech is a professional finance writer from Toronto. He is passionate about demystifying complex finance topics and making them digestible and easy to follow for the average Canadian. Zack has ...

Dori Zinn has been a personal finance journalist for more than a decade. Aside from her work for Forbes, her bylines have appeared on CNET, Yahoo! Finance, New York Times, Quartz, Inc. and more. She ...

The payday loan industry walks the line between helping and taking advantage of people who live from paycheck to paycheck. Which side of that line the lending businesses are on depends on one's point ...

EZCorp Inc. could close a big chunk of its business if Texas legislators adopt stricter regulations on short-term payday loan activities in the upcoming legislative session, a fear the company ...

Payday lenders have a lot in common with pawn shops, their close cousins: They depend on lending money to desperate people living close to the edge with nowhere else to turn. They first surfaced about ...

The payday loan business is pretty simple. Clients generally pay a fee of $15 per $100 for a two-week loan. At EZ Money, the fee is $15 for $100, $25 for $200 and $35 for $300. For one-month loans, ...