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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.
It is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange [4] and is the second largest pawn shop operator in the U.S. [5] after Cash America International. As of September 30, 2021, the company operated 1,148 stores, 516 in the U.S (with 44% located in Texas, 18% in Florida and the remainder spread across 18 other states), 508 ...
Jack Daugherty founded Cash America in 1983 (possibly 1984), [3] after prior experience running a pawn shop and a failed venture hunting for oil. [4] He reinvested his earnings into acquiring more pawn shops, growing his business to 36 locations by 1987 and 101 at the end of 1988. [ 4 ]
With Arkansas being relatively sparsely populated, this arrangement worked well until 1997, when the phone numbers in area code 501 were in danger of being used up. Area code 870 was created in April 1997 to serve the most rural parts of the state (originally specifically not Little Rock metro, Fort Smith or Northwest Arkansas). In January 2002 ...
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The duration of a loan is three months, renewals being allowed. The old law was extended in 1867, [1] and now all pawnbrokers have to be licensed by the municipalities and to pay a small annual licence fee. The rate of interest varies from 6 to 12% according to the amount of the loan, which must not be less than 7d., and unredeemed pledges must ...
iPawn was established with the purpose of utilizing the latest technologies and internet for the veteran pawnbroking industry and to serve as a high-end pawn broker, [3] delivering a simple, private way [4] to get loans or sell high end goods through the internet.
Prior to the Act 910 of 2019, the State of Arkansas had 42 cabinet-level agencies reporting directly to the Governor of Arkansas. Act 910 of 2019 reduced the number of cabinet-level agencies to 15, including the Department of Public Safety. This change is considered the largest reorganization in Arkansas State Government in the past 50 years.