Message From Deb Bortner, Director of Consumer Services

Welcome to the annual edition of the Check Casher and Seller Newsletter. We hope that sharing information keeps your business in compliance and also helps the ultimate customer – Washingtonians using your services.

Improving Our Communication

We plan to communicate with you through this newsletter once each year. We will send the newsletter out through our ListServ. If you have not yet signed up for our ListServ, please take a moment to do so online at: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/about/listservs.htm.

We send out many important announcements through the ListServ and it is a great way for you to keep up to date with the quickly changing regulatory environment. The agency Web site is another good way for you to stay informed about DFI regulatory activities. The Check Casher and Seller web page is located at: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/cs/check.htm.

Meet Our Staff

I would also like to introduce to you a few of the staff who spend significant time working on this program:

Licensing Supervisor - Ariana Wood – awood@dfi.wa.gov
Examination Supervisor – Alex Ketter – aketter@dfi.wa.gov
Financial Legal Examiner – Deborah Pinsonneault – dpinsonneault@dfi.wa.gov

Although any of our staff will be happy to assist you, these folks specialize in this subject area and are invaluable resources.

I hope you find the articles in this newsletter helpful and interesting. Please feel free to contact me any time with questions, ideas or suggestions about items you would like to see covered in the newsletter.

Deb

Articles In This Issue

• Message from Deb Bortner
• 2008 Payday Lending Report (PDF)
• Are You A Money Service Business?
• Enforcement Actions

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