Sentences with phrase «loan shark in»

An ex-banker who quit his six - figure paid job has used his expertise to develop a community bank whose # 1 million assets are helping tackle loan sharks in Leith, Scotland.

Some businesses operate similar to loan sharks in the way they charge interest and fees, although they don't necessarily use intimidation tactics.

Not exact matches

In the business world, taking investments too early or from unsophisticated investors can be the equivalent of borrowing money from a Vegas loan shark.

After testing beta versions with friends, they launched their student loan payment app ChangEd in April 2017 and also took their idea to a January 2018 episode of «Shark Tank,» where they received an offer from Mark Cuban.

To appear on Shark Tank, entrepreneurs must give Finnmax, the show's production company, either a 2 % royalty on profits or a 5 % equity stake in the company, Amir Kassar, founder and CEO of business loan company MultiFunding, wrote in The New York Times's small - business blog.

Instead, it is set up in a way that encourages employee interaction and entertainment, including flying sharks (to represent our nemesis, the loan shark) and a mobile DJ station, a library and a ping pong table.

Barbara Corcoran, known to many as a star on ABC's hit show Shark tank, parlayed a $ 1,000 loan into a five - billion - dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $ 66 million.

George Scangos, CEO of biotechnology giant Biogen Inc., went further, saying in an interview, «Turing is to a research - based company like a loan shark is to a legitimate bank.»

Loan sharks and shady brokers rarely care about your needs — and refinancing debt isn't usually in their best interest, even though it might be in yours.

In June, Beijing banned online loans to college after a public outcry over students falling victim to aggressive debt recovery tactics — including requiring nude photos as collateral — practiced by loan sharks.

There were 20,000 registered complaints against payday lenders in 2012 The Archbishop of Canterbury is leading a fight against legal loan sharks amid reports... More

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Conrad believes that Liston became deeply involved in a loan - sharking ring in Las Vegas, as a bill collector, and that he tried to muscle in for a bigger share of the action.

Bettors taking a simple contrarian strategy have likely made a killing while square public bettors are probably in deep with loan sharks... hoping that their kneecaps survive to see another day.

He had gone to jail on March 16, 1985, the day a jury of nine women and three men in U.S. District Court in Tampa found him guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering (including loan - sharking), extortion and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it.

He said it was vital that recent changes to the Social Fund do not push families into the clutches of «legal loan sharks... as they have nowhere to turn to in their hour of need».

«Food banks, legal loan sharks, Mcjobs, and no hope for the young - this is the tragedy of life for working people in Britain today under the Tories.

The government's key witness in multiple corruption probes — Jona Rechnitz — was a part - time «loan shark» who made money doling out predatory loans, court documents alleged.

Acting New Rochelle Police Commissioner Joseph Schaller added: «I want to commend members of the New Rochelle Police Department's Special Investigation's Unit, members of the New York State Attorney General's Office and members of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office for their hard work and dedicated efforts in helping to root out illegal gambling and loan - sharking in the City of New Rochelle.»

Leading and participating in individual campaigns, from the living wage to library closures to campaigns against legal loan sharks.

She praised her local credit union for the work they do to help people get legitimate loans, assisting them in getting away from spiralling debt and loan sharks.

It calls for a clampdown on loan sharks and for more competition in the home credit market, in which the Competition Commission estimates people are overcharged by # 100 million a year.

Geoff Davis should be in hot water for opposing a bipartisan Pentagon - backed bill to cap interest rates on loan sharks («payday loans») that cluster around military bases and prey on our young, financially naive volunteer armed - services personnel.

Critics compared the legal - financing industry to mob loan - sharking and modern - day slavery during a hearing Wednesday into the controversial practice of paying plaintiffs cash in advance against potential lawsuit settlements.

Acting New Rochelle Police Commissioner Joseph F. Schaller said, «I want to commend members of the New Rochelle Police Department's Special Investigation's Unit, members of the New York State Attorney General's Office and members of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office for their hard work and dedicated efforts in helping to root out illegal gambling and loan - sharking in the City of New Rochelle.»

We can still see the connection in today's loan sharks and card sharks.

«Impastor» is about a cannabis - smoking man, who poses as a homosexual pastor in a small town to try and hide from a loan shark.

Also in 1999, he could be seen playing a loan shark who gives Anjelica Huston a hard time in Huston's Agnes Browne.Winstone gained wide international notice for his starring role in 2000's Sexy Beast, holding his own opposite Ben Kingsley, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.

In this intense and haunting story, a loan shark living an isolated and lonely existence uses brutality to threaten and collect paybacks from desperate borrowers for his moneylender boss.

John Travolta turns in a truly cool and calculated performance as this loan shark turned wannabe Hollywood producer.

Twins, on the other hand, takes place in Downtown Los Angeles in 1988 and follows the blossoming bond between Julius, a strong intelligent South Pacific islander, and his estranged fraternal twin brother, Vincent, a schlubby low - life in debt to a violent loan shark.

His credit card's declined at a casino, where a loan shark and henchman remind him that he's $ 37,000 in debt.

If he's not entertaining pregnant «lady of the night» Daka (Naomi Watts in a very different role) every Tuesday, he's off to the races gambling money he doesn't have and having to fend off the attentions of loan shark Zucko (Terence Howard).

Damon plays a youngster who excels at poker and uses this skill in order to pay off the loan sharks and help his friend in the process.

Bennett's gambling debts puts him in need of loan sharks, the majordomo of a Korean - owned casino and his own mother.

Though he's best known for his role as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, this crime thriller sees him playing a loan shark turned bar owner who works on the periphery of New York's organized crime scene, safeguarding the dirty money that flows through Brooklyn.

Woody Harrelson relishes the opportunity to chew on every piece of scenery in sight, while Casey Affleck offers nuanced support as the troubled Iraq War vet literally fighting his way out of debt to local loan shark Willem Dafoe.

Cooped up in his apartment in a rough Cape Town neighborhood, he is heavily indebted to a loan shark named Emmie with the clock ticking for him and his girlfriend Pam to pay the money back.

But when Jill learns the Harmons are moving and taking her only friend with them — she kidnaps Laila kick - starting an outlandish cat - and - mouse adventure as the Harmons enlist a slick P.I., take off in hot pursuit through the desert of New Mexico, pop into a love commune, confront a gun - wielding loan shark and conquer their fear of parenthood all in this madcap adventure!

He's so self - centered that when the doormat girl fish who loves him from afar (Renee Zellweger) loans Oscar an antique pearl to pay off 5,000 clams in loan - shark debt, he takes the money to the racetrack and loses it all on a long - shot seahorse.

When Blackjack addict Jim Bennett (played by Mark Wahlberg) goes all in, which he does every time, it's more proof that he is «the kind of guy that likes to lose»... a description offered by one of the mobsters and loan sharks who lend him money.

Loan shark Frank (a sweaty John Goodman) tells Bennett that he's suicidal, but in fact he's just searching for that one elusive moment of greatness that will give meaning to his life.

The second half of the film (really the last quarter of the four hours) finds Joe fully embracing the darker side of the world, stoked on by L (Willem Dafoe), a sort of loan shark to the extreme, by taking her in as one of his enforcers.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998): A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed - growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

In more ways than one, Wahlberg's character rolls the dice with a loan shark, his mother, and one of his students — more a love interest than a mentee.

This set - up is ripe for both black comedy and soul - searching drama, and yet writer Steven Knight throws in irrelevant sideroads including a mandated therapist (the wonderful Emma Thompson), a bitter rival (a jagged Matthew Rhys), a couple of randomly violent loan sharks and a precocious little girl.

A notorious loan shark shows up in San Lorenzo and insists that Puss's boots belong to him.

Sterritt *** An aging loan shark contemplates his shady past and uncertain future in the weeks after 9/11 disrupted New York, the city he loves.

When a struggling nightclub owner (Jeong) fails to pay back a loan shark, he decides the only way to get the money is to kill his pick in an annual «Who Will Die This Year» celebrity death pool: David Hasselhoff.

His vice gets him in deep with a series of unsavory loan sharks (Alvin Ing, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman), borrowing money from each purportedly to pay off debt to the others, only to flit it all away at blackjack and roulette tables, seemingly just because he can.