Gutting consumer finance regulator would be a huge Trump mistake (Chicago Tribune)

Report: Lending Disparities Cost Fresno Small Businesses Millions of Dollars (The Business Journal)

Team Rauner’s harmful push to help the check-cashing biz (Crain’s Chicago)

Currency Exchanges Pushing Fee Increase (NPR Illinois)

Currency Exchanges Pushing Fee Increase (NPR Illinois 91.9 UIS)

Currency Exchange Services May Increase With New Proposal (CBS 2)

Currency exchanges’ higher check-cashing rates hurt poor

Currency exchanges’ higher check-cashing rates hurt poor (Chicago Sun-Times)

Currency Exchange Services May Increase With New Proposal

Fee increase proposed for currency exchanges

Fee increase proposed for currency exchanges

Banks loan less to Detroit businesses in neighborhoods with more minorities

Banks loan less to Detroit businesses in neighborhoods with more minorities

Illinois agency approves big rate hike for cashing checks at currency exchanges

Illinois agency approves big rate hike for cashing checks at currency exchanges

Small-Biz Online Lenders Aim to Dodge Consumer-Loan ‘Nightmare’

Small-Biz Online Lenders Aim to Dodge Consumer-Loan ‘Nightmare’

Huntington to open 2 bank branches in lower-income, minority areas of Chicago

Sharks don’t like shark cages; Online lending industry resists regulation

Sharks don’t like shark cages; Online lending industry resists regulation