The Financial Conduct Authority’s new controls on payday lenders are geared toward protecting borrowers from excessive charges, which is welcome news. From January of next year, the regulator will impose…
Articles on Loans
Displaying 61 - 66 of 66 articles
A decade of strong mining revenue growth has seen workers disproportionately located in the “mining states” of Queensland and Western Australia. With mining investment now waning, workers drawn by in the…
Payday lenders are targeting clientele in poorer suburbs across Victoria, according to a University of Melbourne study. In…
Pressure is mounting on high cost credit companies to face tighter controls when they hand out short-term loans. Debt advice agencies, consumer organisations, anti-poverty campaigners and a cross-party…
The Federal Government has taken significant steps in recent years to protect consumers from predatory lending practices, such as very high-interest “payday loans”. An unfortunate, though surely unintentional…
The Australian government has begun to focus on the issue of financial inclusion, as reflected by an allocation of $60.6 million in this year’s federal budget. This follows earlier government support for…
Top contributors
-
Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
-
Associate Professor of Finance, Texas State University
-
Professor, and Dean of Law, Griffith University
-
Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London
-
Associate professor, University of Cape Town
-
PhD Candidate - Financial Regulation, Queen's University Belfast
-
Associate professor, Finance, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Lecturer in International Management and Innovation, Loughborough University
-
Professor, Marketing, School of Social Sciences, Business and Law, Teesside University
-
Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
-
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
-
Research fellow in politics and sociology, University of Oxford
-
Associate Professor in Property and Real Estate, Deakin University
-
Professor of Law, University of Oregon
-
Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham