usury rate

He also facilitated money lending at usury rates.

Hedge funds have been lumped with payday lenders that charge usury rates.

Salary-buying loan sharks continued to operate in some southern states after World War Two because the usury rate was set so low that licensed personal finance companies could not do business there.

Now, the bank issues lengthy disclosure material to applicants in advance of their applying, but no warning about this clause, which would permit the bank at any time during the 25-year term of the loan to impose prepayment penalties, and more important, to increase the interest rate to any level short of the usury rate.