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They will also be prevented from rolling over loans more than twice, and obliged to undertake more rigorous affordability checks.
The result is that Freddie and Fannie and MBIA and Ambac and the banks are all now going over loans one by one.
Lenders will no longer be able to roll over loans more than twice or to make repeated unsuccessful attempts to take money from borrowers' bank accounts.
G.E. will take over loans, leases and other financial assets with a face value of $3.8 billion; it will also assume $1.2 billion in liabilities.
Payday lenders will no longer be able to roll over loans more than twice or make continued raids on borrowers' bank accounts to recover their cash following the introduction of new rules by the financial regulator.
Lenders will be prevented from rolling over loans more than twice to stop charges escalating, and there will be restrictions on how many times they can try to take cash from a borrower's bank account.
The country's finance minister, Jeon Yun Churl, indicated that the government had long since concluded that Hynix was no longer viable and said the government was opposed to rolling over loans or providing new credit to Hynix.
In April, the Financial Conduct Authority will take over regulation of the sector, and it has already told lenders they will be limited to allowing customers to roll over loans just twice.
Under the new regime, lenders will be banned from allowing borrowers to roll over loans more than twice, and have limits to how many times they can try to collect repayments from customers' bank accounts.
Pay-day opponents offer anecdotal stories of customers overwhelmed by mounting debt, such as the borrower who rolled over loans 24 times in 15 months, borrowing a total of $400 yet paying back $1,364 and still left owing $248.But the true social cost of pay-day lending is more ambiguous.
