Internet cuts middleman in borrowing, giving (Daily Breeze)
What if you needed to borrow a couple of thousand bucks to remodel your bathroom but didn't want to pay 26percent interest on a credit card? What if you had $2,000 but wanted to earn more than 2 percent on your money that you would on a passbook savings account at a bank?

Esprit Financial Group Inc. (Esprit) (EFGO.PK) To Host High Level Trade Delegation From China (FinanzNachrichten)
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Esprit Financial Group Inc. ( Nachrichten ) (ESPRIT) (EFGO.PK) http://www.espritfinancialgroup.com/ announced today that it will be welcoming and hosting a high level trade delegation from the People's Republic of China on October 18th.

Esprit Financial Group Inc. (Esprit) (EFGO.PK) To Host High Level Trade Delegation From China (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Esprit Financial Group Inc. www.espritfinancialgroup.com announced today that it will be welcoming and hosting a high level trade delegation from the People's Republic of China on October 18th.

SellingSource.com Announces Partnership with Payday Advance Software Company - Answers, etc. - to Offer Credit ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Las Vegas-based SellingSource.com, a leading provider of marketing and technology solutions for online businesses serving the specialty finance industry, today announced a partnership with Answers, etc., a supplier of software solutions to financial service centers and payday lenders.

Waynesboro City Council to look at payday lending (News Leader)
WAYNESBORO — City Council will consider a resolution Tuesday that would ask the General Assembly to cap payday loans at 36 percent. Councilwoman Nancy Dowdy asked the city attorney to draft the ordinance.

Churches host finance classes to help people get out of debt (Yakima Herald-Republic)
It would be easy to blame the restaurant for David and Lydia Suarez's perch on the verge of bankruptcy. But that was only part of it.

HOME PAGE (The Hindu)
Sensex retains steam on strong FII buying Mumbai, Oct.10 The bull rally on the bourse continues unabated. After the highest single-day gain on Tuesday, the benchmark indices at both the BSE and the NSE rose by another two percentage points on Wednesday. At BSE, the Sensex closed at ...

Schwarzenegger Signs Nine Bills Aiding Military (KGTV San Diego)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs nine bills that will aid California military personnel.

Esprit Financial Group Inc. (Esprit) (EFGO.PK) IFGX Division appoints Steve Edwards Vice President, Business ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Esprit Financial Group Inc. www.espritfinancialgroup.com announced today the hiring of Steve Edwards as Vice President, Business Development for its IFGX division, responsible for the North American market.

'Payday loan' store growth cools (Deseret Morning News)
The once-explosive growth of "payday loan" stores in Utah which often offer two-week loans for a whopping 500 percent annual interest rate appears to have hit a saturation point and cooled.