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Is Loan Shark an Alternative? The Intentions to Take a Loan from Loan Sharks in Indonesia

open access: yesShirkah, 2022
Research rarely reaches the discussion of loan sharks. This study describes how intentions are influenced by service, word-of-mouth, and subjective norms, with knowledge of usury acting as a moderating variable.
Safwan Kamal   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Biased behavior in borrowing from loan sharks

open access: yesJurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam, 2023
Purpose – This study aims to explore and understand how the mindset of merchant women in Montong Traditional Market so choose loan sharks as their loan source, which refers to the perspective of behavior and financial literacy.
Novita Rahayu Pratiwi   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The Loan-Shark Problem

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1941
The term "loan shark" has been commonly used to describe those who lend small sums at higher rates of charge than the law allows. It has been associated almost exclusively in recent years with loans to wage-earners. The qualities that give rise to loan-shark transactions-greed, on one hand, and compelling necessity, short-sightedness, or gullibility ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Loan Sharks and Loan Shark Legislation in Illinois

open access: yesJournal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1917
"Reprinted from the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. VIII, no. 1, May, 1917." ; Mode of access: Internet.
exaly   +3 more sources

A Regulatory Small Loan Law Solves Loan Shark Problem

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1954
The Minnesota Small Loan Act,1 based substantially on the Sixth Draft of the Uniform Small Loan Law, was passed early in the 1939 legislative session and was signed by Governor Harold E. Stassen on February 15, I939. The effective date of the Act, June i, I939, marked the end of the "loan shark" era and the beginning of regulated, licensed lending of ...
exaly   +3 more sources

The Loan Shark Problem in the Southeastern States

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1954
Because of the increase in problems associated with the business of money lending in the United States many of the states passed regulatory acts. The movement extended to the Southeastern area where all states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia ...
exaly   +3 more sources

Nebraska Has No Loan Shark Problem Today

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1954
In the nineteen-thirties Nebraska was often referred to as the white spot of the nation because it was the only state of the union that had no bonded indebtedness. Nebraska was proud of that record which goes back some twenty years. It was but one of the many bright features of our local government.
exaly   +3 more sources

The New Federal Attack on the Loan Shark Problem

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1968
At a time when a presidential candidate makes an attack on loan sharking such a significant part of his campaign that it is highlighted in his acceptance speech and rebroadcast as part of one-minute spot political announcements, the timeliness of this subject is apparent.' This high-level attention illustrates growing public awareness of the very ...
Malcolm, Walter D., Curtin, John J., Jr.
exaly   +3 more sources

Organized Labor Views the Loan Shark Problem

open access: yesLaw and Contemporary Problems, 1954
Perhaps nothing illustrates so pointedly why organized labor continues its active interest in installment loan and finance legislation than a look at those whose welfare this legislation seeks to protect. One of the largest consumer finance companies in the world says that skilled and semi-skilled craftsmen comprise about 58 per cent of their customers.
exaly   +3 more sources

The Role of PKK Saving Loan Against Community Economic Empowerment Malang City

open access: yesJurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Madani, 2023
PKK savings and loans activities are an activity that flows from members' deposits or commonly called savings and money from member deposits will be turned into loans for members.
Siti Revina Agustine   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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