When it comes to managing personal finances, consumers are seemingly taking one step forward and three steps back. For one thing, the portion of consumers who fell behind on bill payments went way up, increasing from 30.7 percent in Q2 2018 to as much as...
Brazil is seeing such huge lending interest rates—bank loans hitting 100 percent interest while credit cards charge more than 240 percent annually—that an unusual player is emerging as a preferred option: pawnshops, which are charging about 19 percent. “While still a relatively small portion of...
November 27, 2020
At a time when the coronavirus has caused a spike in unemployment and crippled countless small businesses, the pawnbroking industry has found itself in a perfect storm of sorts, which has fueled a surge in demand for loans as well as an appetite for secondhand merchandise. “Obviously pawning is the meat and potatoes of the […]
December 04, 2014
Brazil is seeing such huge lending interest rates—bank loans hitting 100 percent interest while credit cards charge more than 240 percent annually—that an unusual player is emerging as a preferred option: pawnshops, which are charging about 19 percent. “While still a relatively small portion of lending, the pawnshop business has been booming, even as other […]
