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By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Attorney General Letitia James tooklegalactionagainst the money advance company Yellowstone Capital for $1.4 billion on Tuesday, stating it ran a massive predatory loaning operation that charged “sky-high” interest rates on deceptive loans.
The problem implicated Yellowstone, now understood as Delta Bridge Funding or Cloudfund, of incorrectly mentioning they would purchase defined portions of merchants’ future profits, understood as receivables, while providing merchants the versatility to pay off advances over longer durations if organization slowed down.
James stated the accuseds rather debited repaired amounts from merchants’ bank accounts over brief durations, usually 60 or 90 organization days, resulting in “unconscionable” reliable interest rates that frequently reached