The FCA's campaign to rid the country of payday lenders & other firms charging extortionate #interestrates to those the #banks wont touch (& of course I'm not talking about #NigelFarage here), has helped out another sub-sector: #pawnbrokers.

It seems with the decline of a significant number of debt-predators, the pawnbroking sector is booming.

Unfortunately this tells us more about the desperation among the vulnerable in #tory Britain, than the happy success of financial regulation!