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Wall Street Journal

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is exploring a potential new regulation to require payday lenders to make sure borrowers can repay their loans, anonymice tell the Wall Street Journal. The proposal is expected to be discussed early this year in a panel of small lenders the CFPB plans to convene. Such a rule would please consumer advocates, who also want the CFPB to require payday lenders to verify borrowers' incomes, expenses and credit...