SPC’s usury rules continue to reverberate
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In late August, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) slashed the maximum lending rate on private loans that it was willing to legally sanction.
Some context: Previously, lenders were legally protected if they charged interest up to 24%.
At the end of August, the SPC declared that the ceiling...