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Synonyms for moneylender

someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

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Cash, two mobile phones and records of the illegal moneylending services were found in the Filipino's and Singaporean's possessions.
After the Moneylending Control Law underwent a revision in 2010, high interest rates and unsecured lending were under control.
Marcus shows that editors generally refuse to acknowledge the enormous historical evidence that moneylending was pervasive in Shakespeare's England and that Shakespeare himself was a moneylender.
But that is unlikely to happen so long as we and the government rely for advice on those whose livelihood is in moneylending.
Dubai: A business partner won his appeal and has been cleared of moneylending at unlawful interest rates after keeping gold as mortgages at his jewellery store.
He later said he raided the store to try and repay a PS300 debt to a moneylending drug dealer.
In this, offshoring resembles the elaborate international transactions that Florentine bankers under the Medicis engaged in for the sole purpose of avoiding church strictures on moneylending. Their purpose is not to seek value in the earth's far corners but to get across the border to where the customs, expectations, and regulations that arose in the industrial age regarding compensation of the workforce don't apply.
This is apparent in the narrative of Qiu Dajie (Chapter 6), who had to engage in the risky ruby trading and moneylending businesses in order to support her family because her husband had become a drug addict and was jailed.
The non-cultivating moneyed classes expropriated agriculturist tribes in the Muslim-dominated western districts which 'was 'jeopardizing the stability of colonial hold on the affection' of landholding classes in Punjab.56 In Mughal and Sikh period, 'the Bania'57 or moneylending classes were mostly 'poor and cringing creatures' except in the towns of Lahore, Amritsar, and were looked down on by landed classes.
The book is strongest when considering the institutions that either proffered credit or regulated the practices of moneylending. This includes the early creation of long-term annuities, tontines, government bonds, and more recently, debt derivatives and swap contracts.
Banking laws kept their interest rates for moneylending low, and they were further burdened by high taxes.
(20) Many perceived usury as a peculiarly Jewish crime, (21) rendering the terms 'Jew' and 'usurer' synonymous in England long after the Jews were officially expelled, despite the fact that Christians had taken up the practice of moneylending in their absence--as Conscience laments in The Three Ladies, 'usury is made tolerable amongst Christians as a necessary thing' (10.25).
Jablawi added that in math courses, Daesh had removed all examples that related to "moneylending, democracy, or voting."
(63) Moreover, it was Calvin, whose departure from the Scholastic condemnation of usury (upheld firmly in Sixtus V's Detestabilis avaritia in 1586), who provided the theological reasoning necessary to allow moneylending on interest in Protestant countries such as England, although many schemes and dodges had existed in Catholic countries for centuries.