An indictment charges Abigail Payton got $60,000 in loans under other names in Jacksonville and scammed another credit union ...

JACKSONVILLE – An association of title-loan companies has filed a lawsuit against Jacksonville over a new law cutting the industry’s maximum lending rates from 264 percent to 18 percent a year.

Janet and James Schmitt were in a financial bind after he had surgery last year, so they took out a car title loan using their 2010 Ford F-150 as collateral. Four months later, the St. Augustine co… ...

But for the most part, banks were ramping down in 2009, and not only in Jacksonville. FirstAtlantic's assets rose by 55 percent and its net loans rose by 67 percent in 2009.

NORTHEAST FLORIDA — Million-dollar loan charge-offs among many Northeast Florida banks in 2008 caused bankers to turn their attention to existing problem loans and cash flow rather than making ...

When Florida lawmakers banned high-interest car title loans in 2000, then-Gov. Jeb Bush proclaimed that the new law would protect Floridians from lenders "who prey on the desperate." ...

JACKSONVILLE — The City Council on Monday postponed one vote on new regulations for pawn shops, title loan stores and payday advance businesses in Jacksonville, but council members did agree to ...