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

For several years before the present war, the financiers of Berlin were forbidden to engage in moneylending operations abroad.

From International Finance by Withers, Hartley

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