{"id":13900,"date":"2016-05-22T01:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/small-business-lenders-as-bad-as-payday-loan-firms\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T01:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:55:36","slug":"small-business-lenders-as-bad-as-payday-loan-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/small-business-lenders-as-bad-as-payday-loan-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Small business lenders &#039;as bad as payday loan firms\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : telegraph.co.uk&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/05\/21\/small-business-lenders-as-bad-as-payday-loan-firms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small business lenders &#8216;as bad as payday loan firms\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; Source : telegraph.co.uk&#013; Read more&#8230;Small business lenders &#8216;as bad as payday loan firms\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-3Cc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3334,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/payday-lenders-and-credit-firms-to-pay-for-illegal-money-enforcement-teams\/","url_meta":{"origin":13900,"position":0},"title":"Payday lenders and credit firms to pay for &#039;illegal money&#039; enforcement teams","date":"February 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Proposed levy coincides with government withdrawal of funding for service which has prosecuted more than 300 illegal money lenders since 2004Payday loan firms and credit card companies could be charged a fee to fund the work of teams cracking down on loan sharks, the chancellor has announced.From April 2017\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34100,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/25-texts-and-emails-a-day-how-payday-loan-firms-hound-vulnerable-borrowers\/","url_meta":{"origin":13900,"position":1},"title":"25 texts and emails a day: how payday loan firms hound vulnerable borrowers","date":"November 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Despite tougher regulation, the industry continues to act irresponsibly by lending to people in financial difficulty. 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