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A pawnshop business in Munich, Germany in 2014 Helsingin Pantti's pawnbroker in Helsinki, Finland in 2023 A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign. A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
The National Pawnbrokers Association (NPA) is a USA-based trade association headquartered in Southlake, Texas. The NPA was founded in 1987 [1] to help the growing number of pawnbrokers in the United States. Today, there are more than 1500 members in the National Pawnbrokers Association. [2] [3]
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Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American businessman and reality television personality, best known for his appearances on the History Channel television show Pawn Stars, which depicts day-to-day business at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas where he works.
Pawnbrokers could only charge interest of 1% per month for six months, with further rules dictating the sale at auction of unredeemed pledges. Very few pawnbrokers existed in Switzerland, where it was more common for people to sell items to second-hand dealers in the hope of subsequently buying them back. [1]
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The H. T. Hackney Company is an American wholesale grocery distribution firm headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1891, the company has grown over the years to become one of the largest grocery wholesalers in the nation, with operations covering much of the Eastern United States. [ 3 ]
In an uncertain economic environment amid foreclosures and bank failures, people sought cash from unregulated loan sharks and pawnbrokers. [2] As a result, a group of powerful New York bankers and financiers pooled money together, pledging $35,000 each [ 4 ] to establish a not-for-profit organization to provide short-term loans at a lower rate ...