No payday, short-term, or high-interest lending content

The requirementstatement

Campaign content must not promote payday loans, short-term lending, or high-interest credit offers.

Severityseverity
BlockingBLOCKINGBreaking this rule gets the submission rejected. There is no partial credit.
When it bitesphase
Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
What is checkedobject
campaign.description + campaign.sample[] + campaign.message_flow
How Ekas settles itdetectability
AI · formAI_FORM
A semantic question about what you wrote: whether a description matches a use case, whether a name looks like a filed entity. Judged by a model against written criteria.
What the fix involvesfailureClass
Hard stopHARD_STOP
Not remediable. Resubmitting will not help, and anyone offering to fix it is selling you a rejection.
Who requires itauthorities
TwilioTCRT-MobileAT&TCTIA
When it appliesapplicabilityText
Applies to every 10DLC registration.

Why this rule existsrationale

High-risk lending is the category most associated with consumer harm complaints on SMS, and it is coded separately from the ordinary direct-lending attribute. The distinction matters: declaring direct lending is a fixable attribute problem, while promoting payday-style credit is a business-model rejection with no remedy.

How to fix itremediation

This business model cannot be registered. Regulated lenders sending servicing messages to existing customers are a different category — if that is you, remove the acquisition-style offers and set the direct-lending attribute instead.

Provider rejection codescodes

The code you get back when this rule is what failed, and whether that provider lets you resubmit.

ProviderCodeResubmit
Twiliogen230942No

Rules you will hit next

6 other rules read campaign.description + campaign.sample[] + campaign.message_flow. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.

All message content rules

MSG-HIGH-RISK-FINANCIAL is one of 122 message content rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.

Reading the rules is the easy part.

Ekas runs every rule that gates approval, 823 of these 915, against your registration before it reaches the carrier. It reads your site, your policy pages and your opt-in the way a reviewer would, and hands you the fix, not just the verdict.