If you are one of those people who just cannot get themselves to save money for a rainy day, a sou-sou may be just what you need to build up that little nest egg you have heard your girlfriends brag ...

Promoters of illegal “sou-sou” pyramid schemes, some using the Black Lives Matter movement to snare victims, want Black folks to believe their participation is for a good cause. To do this, promoters ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois attorney general and the Better Business Bureau are warning the public about an uptick in pyramid schemes. Pyramid schemes have a lot of names. Some call them boards, ...

It’s like karmic cash. You get as good as you give. And Marie Lumen Clersaint is Brooklyn’s reigning queen of sou-sous — an informal savings club popular among Caribbean and African immigrants. When ...

Have you ever daydreamed about winning the lottery? Imagined the joy of receiving a windfall deposit of millions (or even just thousands) of dollars in your bank account? Well, a new scheme has been ...

If you haven’t heard of a sou-sou you’re not alone. But this poor man’s savings club has been all the rage for centuries among Caribbean, Asian and Latino communities in America. Originating in Africa ...

When Fonta Gilliam joined the foreign service out of school, she didn’t expect it would lead her to entrepreneurship. But after seeing community lending in practice throughout her work in East Asia ...

This West African participatory system isn't new but it could be the answer to escaping the discriminatory limits of ...