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The Money Shop, a payday lender owned by US firm Dollar Financial, is in the midst of a consultation process to close as many as 200 of its 500 stores.
A full consultation process will need to be done before a final number emerges. As many as 350 staff could be made redundant out of a total of about 3,000 employed by Money Shop, the company has confirmed. Tighter regulation has hit profits across the payday lending sector. The company hopes to keep compulsory redundancies down by finding new roles for staff, sources told the BBC earlier. It has already closed about 40 stores.
Loan capThe firm's reorganisation may also include closing one of its three head offices. Money Shop's cutbacks follow the introduction by the Financial Conduct Authority this month of a cap on the costs of loans made by payday lenders......Read more here
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