Lest it be accused of loan sharking, Sanwa Bank points out that the venture is aimed at untapped middle-income, middle-risk consumers (apparently it is already getting calls from school teachers and tax inspectors) who cannot borrow money at banks but flinch at traditional consumer-finance rates.
Farmers bear the bulk of the risk as consumers sort out what they want.
Providian lent extensively to sub-prime (high-risk) consumers and has been bitten by extraordinarily high charge-offs and delinquent loans.
By "dangerous" he means that there is the risk that consumers might be tempted to opt for cheaper alternatives.
This increases the risk of consumers paying overdraft fees on smaller purchases.
But a toxicology study found there was no health risk to consumers.
While the air fresheners posed no immediate risk to consumers, persistently high exposure levels can have long-term health risks, according to the NRDC.
In the US, the practice which is known there as "dumpster diving" has been identified as a real risk to consumers and businesses for many years.
For now, there is no alternative to BPA that has been so thoroughly tested, and using a less-tested substance could needlessly increase the potential health risk to consumers.
But they warned that the economic recovery could be put at risk if consumers remained less willing to spend in the face of high inflation and non-existent wage growth.
Uncertainty in global economic and financial conditions poses a risk that consumers and businesses may defer purchases in response to negative financial events, which could negatively affect product demand and other related matters.
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In a report earlier this year, Mr. Hunter found that insurers have been pushing some of their risk to consumers by capping how much they will pay to replace a home, for example, or refusing to pay extra to account for higher material costs or to meet modern construction codes.
This could create significant risk for cloud consumers, which can be mitigated by strong governance.
One risk is that consumers will gripe about the monitoring and massaging of discussions by corporate henchmen.
Expect a few hits and a lot of losers as risk-averse consumers flock to just a handful of models.
Here the government has sent a message to executives: do not profit at the risk of harming consumers who have placed their confidence in you.
If the MSRP is too high, Microsoft will run the risk of alienating consumers in the same way that Sony has with its latest device.
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U. found that these engineered fish have a higher tolerance to toxins, putting consumers at risk.
Sullivan did not specify exactly how large the cache had to be, but systems similar to those in which the problem surfaced have already shipped, leaving consumers at risk.
Bank Indonesia Deputy Director Yunita Resmi Sari said the central bank imposed a minimum down payment for car and motorcycle loans last year to limit banks' credit risk and to ease consumers' debt burden.
People are exposed to that risk not just as consumers but also as homeowners (if they live in an oil town or a cold spot) and as workers (if they build oil rigs or design suvs).
Marketers who aim their social arm at just one demographic run the risk of alienating other potential consumers: customers who influence other customers.
The risk with this is that consumers will get second-rate advice.
Fixed annuities sales soared during 2008-09 economic crisis when consumers had low risk appetite but the growing pace of market recovery has led to a decline in sales of fixed annuities.
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So why does a standard ladder contain, by one expert's estimate, 600 words of warnings, including one alerting consumers to the risk of placing it in front of a swinging door?
As a result, the European standard (GSM) fast became dominant in the mobile industry, enabling manufacturers to produce telecom infrastructure at low cost and reducing the risk for network operators and consumers to buy the new equipment.
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Competition among issuers is extremely high as credit card companies try to attract the consumers with the lowest risk: those with high credit scores.
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Clearly, the consumer products executives recognize that using social media for marketing to consumers puts them at risk of unintentional damage to their reputations.
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Despite the privacy lapses that are occurring in the retailer rush to sell online, the risk is still minimal to most consumers, according to Kerley at Jupiter.
Plain packaging will also exacerbate an already serious counterfeiting problem in parts of the EU. If unregulated, counterfeit cigarette packages are essentially indistinguishable from regulated products, consumers are at greater risk of purchasing dangerous products.
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