When your business borrows money from a creditor, the creditor will typically charge you interest. However, there are certain regulations that a creditor must follow when developing the loan contract ...

The doings of Pope Francis have tended to be popular by default, but his Jubilee Year of Mercy is off to an unusually slow start. Pilgrims aren’t pouring into Rome as expected; media reports have been ...

New Jersey law prescribes limits on interest rates through its civil and criminal usury statutes. Under the civil statute, interest rates may not exceed 6 percent for oral contracts, or 16 percent for ...

Depending on where you live, you could get a small loan with an annual percentage rate of 36%, 300% or 600%. Why the staggering difference? Many factors contribute to the rate you receive on secured ...

Usury isn’t often in the news. But with his new credit card reforms “Obama has proposed and Congress has passed a series of minor reforms,” says Dick Morris, that “fail to reform the most basic ...

Mafia loan sharks have exploited the economic downturn creating a hidden "new slavery" of usury within communities, an Italian bishop said Sunday. Bishop Giovanni D'Alise of the southern Diocese of ...