Usury is defined as 60 % annualized interest in Canada, and yet, payday lenders charge in excess of 500 % interest based on the Ministry's calculations as shown in this great youtube video about how to calculate the annual
equivalent interest rate on a payday loan by Preet Banerjee, financial writer for the Globe & Mail.
You can almost hear the new election slogan on the doorsteps now: «Vote Labour: for intellectually coherent ways of capping
interest rates on payday loans.
In fact, the interest rates on no credit check loans are often similar to or the same as
the interest rates on payday loans.
The Short - Term Lender Law of 2008, or the Payday Lending Law, limits
the interest rate on payday loans to 28 percent.
When fees are included,
interest rates on payday loans can be as much as 500 %.
The interest rate on payday loan is quite high when you compare it with other types of short term loans.