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

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

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

What was the effect on England, and on the countries to whom she lent, of her moneylending activity in the past?

From International Finance by Withers, Hartley