If you have been wondering if anyone ever bothered to put together a bid list of direct payday lenders then you would not be alone. There are many consumers who want to have a central source to look at all the direct payday lenders at once.
Rather than just have one gigantic list of all direct payday lenders the concept here is to create and maintain two lists of loan companies.
The first list will all the tribal loan companies that engage in payday lending (so it will exclude the Native American installment loan providers and the tribal line of credit issuers) so that consumers can see just how many firms are based on tribal lands.
The second list will be payday lenders who are licensed in a state and have more rigorous rules to follow, which can be a warning sign for borrowers. Some state licensed firms are very active with reporting a person's loan activity with some third party organizations that are sanctioned by state governments to keep track of how many loans, or how often, a consumer is taking on short-term. Another way of saying that is big brother is watching and will tell these lenders what to do in regards to a consumer getting a loan.
Tracking a borrowers history (amounts, dates, repayments) is not always appreciated by people and sometimes it gets in the way of getting a new loan when it is most needed.
That's one of the big reasons why there are two lists rather than just a single big list, because Native American lenders are truly a different animal and an altogether different form of direct payday lenders, especially as we move into a more regulated and monitored future.
Below is the first list, which consists of online, unsecured lenders (all of which are tribal loan companies) which do not require any reporting to any state financial regulatory agency or third party vendor...
- Action Payday
- 500 Fast Cash (very old Native American company)
- United Cash Loans
- Advantage Cash Services
- Ameriloan (one of the oldest tribal lenders)
- American Web Loan (also found as AWL)
- Arrow One Lending
- Archer Direct Services
- Black Bear Advance
- Blue Pine Lending
- Blue Trust Loans (new to the list as of 2015)
- Bright Day Loans
- Bottom Dollar Payday (yes, this is a real company)
- Cash Advance Network
- Cash Cloud
- Cash Fairy
- Cash On Cloud 9 (a new company)
- Cash Union
- Cashwell Loans (might be out of business)
- Castle Payday
- Cover Me Cash
- Clear Creek Lending (now part of American Web Loan)
- Dakota Lending
- Everest Cash Advance (new to the list)
- Fast 123 Money (might be out of business)
- Fast Day Loan
- Four Seasons Cash (new tribal lender)
- Fox Hills Cash (also a new company)
- Gentle Breeze (this lender is now confirmed as out of business)
- Great Plains Lending (one of the largest online lenders)
- Green Corp Cash
- Green Gate Services (sometimes found as Green Gate Financial)
- Great Sky Cash
- Green River Loans (new company)
- Greenline Loans (company changed their name)
- Iggy Loans (yes, it is a real company)
- Insta Plata (Spanish speaking based tribal lender)
- IPL Today (stand for Instant Payday Loans)
- Kashia Lending
- Minute Funds (this popular lender is out of business)
- Money King Loans
- Mountain Summit Financial (brand new company)
- MultiLoanSource (can also be found as Multi-Loan Source)
- Mobiloans (tribal firm dedicated to providing lines of credit)
- My Next Paycheck (not a very appealing name)
- My Cash Advance
- My Back Wallet
- My Silver Safe (can also be found as Silver Safe)
- My Snap Credit (was Snap Credit, no longer around)
- North Cash
- North Plains Financial (not the same as Northern Plains Funding)
- Northern Plains Funding
- On The Go Loans (this firm was rolled into Plain Green Loans)
- Pacific Cash Line
- Peak Lender (new venture formed in 2015)
- Pepper Cash (yes, this is the actual name)
- Pine Lake Lending (this was determined not to be a tribal lender)
- Pixy Cash
- Plain Green Loans (this is a huge tribal loan company)
- Preferred Cash Loans (might be out of business)
- Quick Cash Ahead
- Quick Credit 911
- Quicker Cash
- Quick Credit Us
- RadiantCash (sometimes found as Radiant Cash)
- Red Leaf Lending (may or may not be a tribal firm)
- Red Pine Lending (same company as Green Pine Lending)
- Rapid Loans Direct
- Red Rock (does B2B and is not a direct lender)
- Ripple Cash
- Riverbend Cash
- Rolling Plains Cash (this firm was determined to be a tribal lender)
- Rushmore Financial (new company formed in 2015)
- Seaside Financial (new tribal lender)
- Sierra Lending (may not be in business)
- Sovereign Advance
- Speedy Jet Loans (brand new firm in 2015)
- Spotloan (a very large tribal lender)
- Stone Canyon Lending
- Sun Credit Line
- Superior Funding (only does business with federal employees)
- Star Cash Processing (very old tribal lender)
- VIP Loan Shop (or The VIP Loan Shop)
- Sure Cash Xtra
- TLC Funds
- Target Cash Now
- Tremont Lending (new company formed in late 2014)
- USA Money Shop
- US Fast Cash
- USA Web Cash (may or may not be tribal organized now)
- Virtual Cash Loans
- West River Cash
- White Hills Cash
- Yellow Pine Lending
- Your Fast Payday
That is over 100 tribal lenders, there are many others but some are so uninteresting or their websites are so questionable that they didn't make it onto the tribal lending list.
There are some distinct absentees from the list, and some are obvious such as Western Sky Financial. Once the king of all Native American lending the entire organization of Western Sky has been liquidated and forced into bankruptcy closure. Another company that is on the list but will be gone on the 2016 list is Gentle Breeze Online. This was another tribal lending bellwether that has been confirmed to have vanished with no news or formal announcement. A third loss, and not nearly as well known, is Red Mountain Loans which may have been acquired by another tribal company.
Finally, we lost Clear Creek Lending which was a lender that provided decent installment loans. It's unfortunate to lose this organization because they were very flexible and had a human touch (as opposed to so many of these firms) and they also provided up to a $2,500 installment loan. Clear Creek was taken over by AWL (American Web Loan) and the terms on the new AWL loans are not as good as those previously offered by Clear Creek.
Overall we still have a large number of tribal companies to choose from if we need a loan, however most of them are limited in the dollar amounts they are willing to loan out. Losing companies like Clear Creek and Western Sky make the landscape all the more bland. Fortunately we still have Mobiloans, Spotloan, Plain Green Loans and Great Plains Lending which are now the "Big 4" in tribal lending.
Just to make sure everyone understands, there are many more Native American loan companies out there beyond these 80 odd lenders. Overall we have to be talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 to 300 total companies / sites. But some are defunct, or are about to go out of business, and others have questionable status. The companies listed above are what are usually considered the top (or real) tribal lenders, the companies that carry the authority, and the majority, of the business.
Posted by: Native Loans | 10/22/2015 at 01:16 PM