{"id":261704,"date":"2026-01-24T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:06:12","slug":"how-irelands-moneylending-sector-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261704\/","title":{"rendered":"how Ireland\u2019s moneylending sector has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> Once a familiar presence in a crisis-ridden post-Celtic Tiger era, many of Ireland\u2019s moneylenders have quietly disappeared in the last decade, resulting in an increasingly concentrated sector with fewer main players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The industry, long associated with cash loans at eye-watering interest rates, has been shrinking year by year as tighter regulation, changing consumer habits, and the rise of alternative credit options, such as the equally controversial practice of buy now, pay later (BNPL), reshape Ireland\u2019s lending landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once a familiar presence in a crisis-ridden post-Celtic Tiger era, many of Ireland\u2019s moneylenders have quietly disappeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,5367],"class_list":["post-261704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-markets-irish-economy-iseq-stocks-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}