Doorstep Loans
100,000 families crippled by £82 million loan shark debtOver 100,000 of the UK's poorest families will spend 2010 crippled by a combined debt of £82 million because they have borrowed money from loan sharks to pay for Christmas 2009, a new report reveals. |
Loan sharks 'thrive in recession'The recession is putting 200,000 people in Britain at risk from loan sharks, according to a report. |
Cattles suspends three directorsDoorstep lender Cattles has suspended three directors and warned it has breached its banking covenants amid an investigation into the firm's accounts. |
Government to attack loan sharksThe government is to crackdown on loan sharks preying on 165,000 UK households. |
Loan sharks to become endangered speciesMeasures to protect consumers from loan sharks are being rolled-out nationwide, Gordon Brown said today. |
Doorstep loans set to become clearerThe doorstep loan market will be opened up to competition and become clearer for customers and cheaper under new rules set out today. |
Govt 'must act' on expensive loansAn influential group of MPs has called on the government to do more to tackle expensive lenders and loan sharks. |
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