Titus, the moneylender.

First the moneylender will kill us.

The moneylender was the most hated figure in medieval Europe.

I'm the big landowner and chief moneylender in these parts.

The village moneylender, though often a shark, at least belongs to the community and knows his clients.

A former retainer of the Kato Clan now lives in Nihonbashi and makes his living as a moneylender.

60. The murder would appear to be a result of the attack, which was prompted by the fact that the victim was a moneylender.

Till the principal amount of rupees 500 is not paid 3 parts of my crop of jowar and pulses will go to the moneylender as interest.

59. The victim was known to be a moneylender and the day of the attack, he had collected exactly the sum of money which was stolen from him.

The creation of seed monopolies, and with them crushing debts to a new species of moneylender the agents of the seed and chemical companies has taken a high human toll as well.

When children fall sick, parents do not have the time to apply for a loan from a state owned bank (perhaps the only alternative source of loans for the poor other than the moneylender).

The moneylender is happy to lend for any purpose, including non productive expenditures like weddings and dowries, whereas a PMFI, if it is to succeed, can finance only income generating, economically sustainable activities. But PMFIs seeking to attract private equity capital emphasized growth over sustainability, lent indiscriminately to people who couldn t pay them back and attracted public opprobrium in the process.

Donors soon helped launch other microfinance institutions in Mexico, India, Peru, Indonesia, and many African countries, where they could offer loans at 25 30 interest rates well below traditional moneylender rates of 60 100 and still generate strong profit margins. Today, the microfinance industry serves about 150 200 million borrowers around the world, and has grown rapidly by securing access to several billion dollars in equity financing.