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QC holding, the first ever publicly traded payday loan company said it would be closing all 19 of its stores in North Carolina before Dec. 1
The Kansas based payday loan company operates over 400 stores in 23 states. It offers check cashing services, title loans, money orders and money transfers. But the bulk of the earnings comes from payday loans.
While the Carolina stores constitute less than 5% of the total store number, the closure signifies the growing troubles, payday loan companies are facing nationwide with more state and local governments looking for increasingly tough measures to curb their lending practices that many consider predatory.
More on QC Holdings problems...
See also troubles for New Mexico payday loans, Michigan payday loans and Wisconsin payday loans.
Posted in Payday Loans at September 29, 2005 03:59 PM
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