Try this for a sobering start to the week. Provident Financial will offer you a loan of £500 over 23 weeks repayable at £32 a week, total repayments £736. That an APR (annual percentage rate) of 497.4% (put the numbers in to confirm).
Makes you proud of the financial services sector, doesn't it?
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