moneylending

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A new report commissioned by Fair4All Finance, a government-backed body that works on financial inclusion, looks at the lived experience of illegal moneylending in the UK.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2023

Britain is almost uniquely laissez-faire when it comes to moneylending.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010

Besides, we all know that moneylending, together with respectability, developes a certain thoughtfulness in men.

From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

The system of credit-giving, and especially of moneylending, assumed a more beneficial character, and “the old noxious contracts, mere snares for the liberty of a poor free man and his children”—the flat-traps of to-day—disappeared.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott

He knew his father-in-law was in business in the City; but he did not know that the business of "Harker's," for which he had a great respect, had anything to do with moneylending.

From Adrien Leroy by Garvice, Charles