Low-rate credit cards, car loans and mortgages are widely available to people with good credit. Increasingly, loans also are available to people with damaged credit, although at higher rates than people with good credit would pay. Companies that make loans to borrowers with damaged credit are referred to as subprime lenders. As the market has grown some subprime lenders and loan servicers have engaged in illegal practices to the detriment of borrowers.
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Low-rate credit cards, car loans and mortgages are widely available to people with good credit. Increasingly, loans also are available to people with damaged credit, although at higher rates than people with good credit would pay. Companies that make loans to borrowers with damaged credit are referred to as subprime lenders. As the market has grown some subprime lenders and loan servicers have engaged in illegal practices to the detriment of borrowers.