Britons spurned by banks caught in a coronavirus credit crunch
Share:
LONDON (Reuters) - When a payroll glitch left Natalie Gallagher so short of cash this month she couldn't afford her bus fare to work, she turned to her usual lender Amigo for an emergency top-up loan.But she was out of luck. Like many of the lenders that thousands of higher-risk borrowers in Britain depend on, Amigo had tightened its criteria for handing out cash in the wake of the coronavirus."They approved my top-up but 10 minutes later I got a text saying my reason for the top-up isn't one..