Cash Lending Industry Overview

Companies that provide short-term cash loans, including pawn shops and payday loans.

Full Cash Lending Industry Description

Consolidation

Several factors have encouraged consolidation in recent years: larger companies have easier and cheaper access to capital markets, computer systems can now handle credit analysis and loan tracking functions for large portfolios of loans, and the industry's strong profitability has prompted many companies to expand by buying smaller firms that already have offices, personnel, and a local presence.

Full Cash Lending Industry Trends

• CNG Financial Corp.
• Orient Corporation
• QC Holdings, Inc.

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Cash Lending maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

Full Cash Lending Industry Codes

• Financial Services Technology Consortium
  
• Investment Company Institute
  
• The Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers
  

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