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Experts Predict Apple Card Will Change the Game for Credit Products
When Apple launched its new Apple Card product earlier this year, experts saw it as having the potential to create a shift in the credit card industry due to the way Apple tackles customer interactions. Specifically, customers can apply and start using the card within...
LVD Expands Health Care Services
Last week, the Watersmeet, Michigan-based Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, along with the Lac Vieux Desert Health Center, announced that a new satellite health clinic will open in Eagle River, Wisconsin early next year. The new clinic will...
SoFi Fined $110,000 For Unlicensed Mortgage Servicing in Pennsylvania
Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (PA DOBS) fined SoFi Lending Corp., a subsidiary of SoFi that provides mortgage finance services in the state, $110,000 for servicing mortgages without a state license. Since June 30, 2018,...
Why NAFSA?
There are more than 570 federally-recognized tribes in the United States, many of whom are spread across in diverse areas. This has left a need for other tribal economic development opportunities to create sustainability and jobs on Native American reservations.
Tribal Financial Services:
Create jobs & economic development on tribal lands
Increase the financial independence of tribes
Deploy sovereignty & bolster tribal self-determination
The Impact of Tribal Financial Services
Coming from a history of staggering unemployment rates, limited opportunities, and lack of access to fundamental resources, Native American tribes began online lending businesses to create real change for the future. Internet commerce has been a vehicle for supporting economic growth, tribal services, and tribal development. These are their stories.
Our Mission
To advocate for tribal sovereignty, promote responsible financial services, and provide better economic opportunity in Indian Country for the benefit of tribal communities.
To protect and preserve the sovereignty of Native American tribes while offering an unprecedented opportunity for tribal economic growth
Growing opportunity for Indian Country in the financial services industry
Advancing financial literacy in tribal communities
