AFRO Staff Writer
The city of Baltimore has lodged a lawsuit against MoneyLion, alleging that the fintech company runs a modern-day payday lending scheme that manipulates residents into taking out high-cost, frequent, small-amount, short-term loans known as “Instacash.”
The suit accuses MoneyLion of violating Baltimore’s Consumer Protection Ordinance (CPO) with misleading marketing and predatory interest charges. Mayor Brandon M. Scott says the company’s actions have impacted some of the most financially vulnerable Baltimoreans…