Carl Packman

Carl Packman is a writer, researcher and blogger. Carl is the author of the book Loan Sharks: The Rise and Rise of Payday Lending published in 2012 by Searching Finance. He has written for many publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Jewish Chronicle and Credit Today Magazine and has been interviewed on payday lending by the BBC, Sky News, LBC and Channel 4.

His next book, on the global growth of the high cost credit market, will be published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014.

Publications

• Boom-time for legal loan sharks (11 Jul 2013)

Blogs

• During Debt Awareness Week people are turning to payday lenders to stay afloat (23 Jan 2014)
• The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously (12 Jul 2013)