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

But it has probably contributed to expedite the transfer of land from the cultivating to the moneylending classes.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

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