Tag Archives: Madden v. Midland Funding

On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Madden v. Midland Funding. The decision is unsettling for the banking and marketplace lending industries, which had hoped the Supreme Court would seize the opportunity to reverse the Second Circuit’s controversial holding. As a result of the denial, secondary (non-bank) debt purchasers operating within the Second Circuit are ostensibly prohibited from collecting interest charges in excess of state usury caps – a practice that traditionally had not been an issue as long as the interest charges were permissible under the original loan agreements. The Solicitor General and the OCC had …