(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(4) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(5) Data from a sample of completed property sales provided by mortgage lenders, representing about 65%-70% of homes bought with mortgages.
(6) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
(7) A member of the P2PFA ThinCats ThinCats logo Date launched January 2011 Quoted returns Lenders can earn "between 6% and 13%".
(8) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(9) Mortgage lenders are failing to follow rules designed to help people avoid repossession, according to a damning report published today.
(10) "Building societies and other mutual lenders continue to play a dominant role in supporting members of the UK public looking to buy a new home," said Paul Broadhead, head of mortgage policy at the BSA.
(11) Rival lender Nationwide reported a fall in house prices of 0.2% in September , the first decrease in 17 months.
(12) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
(13) • MPs heard that payday lenders are targeting young children with their TV adverts.
(14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) estimates that there remain 719,000 households in the UK with mortgages that are worth more than the property.
(15) Later this week the Financial Conduct Authority will outline how it intends to police payday lenders when it begins to regulate them in April 2014.
(16) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.
(17) The maximum amount being advertised is the maximum the lender will consider – it is not a guarantee you will be offered that percentage of the property price.
(18) Either way, Boulger points out that some of the standard variable rates charged by lenders are so good, you might not need a new deal at all.
(19) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
(20) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.