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Jun 2023
25m 28s

Buy Now Pay Later and Mortgage Prisoners

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode
The Chief Executive of the Association of British Credit Unions has told Money Box his members are seeing more people applying for borrowing who already have multiple buy now, pay later loans. We'll hear from a young woman who got into debt that way and get a response from the industry. Mortgage costs will go up again this week. That's going to put the squ ... Show More
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