Resorting to the mobile phone for a quick injection of cash is on the rise as more online lenders join the market, a trend likely to lead more Australians into a spiral of debt, says QUT poverty ...

Claudia Wilner, an attorney with the anti-predatory lending group NEDAP, the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, says that it’s extremely common for her clients in debt trouble to have ...

Twelve million Americans have fallen prey to the vicious cycle of payday loans. On the surface, a payday loan is a short-term loan to help an individual make ends meet until the following payday.