[1] The origins of the company date back to 1967 when Alan Turtletaub operated mortgage lending firms in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto (with his "holy cow" ads) was a longtime advertising pitchman for the company.

After a major revamping and consolidation effort, most of its corporate employees transferred to the newly built headquarters at The Ziggurat building in West Sacramento, California between 1996 and 1997.

First Union, preparing for the Wachovia merger, split The Money Store into four divisions, transferred First Union's bad home equity loans into The Money Store's home equity division, and two years later took a loss provision of $1.7 billion to shut down the business.

Morton Dear, chief financial officer of original The Money Store, is the founder and chairman of the new incarnation.