Unfair Online Lending Practices in the Light of Judicial Practice

Abstract

The author examines unfair practices of providing loans using a remote method of interaction with the borrower. It proves that the introduction of new technologies into banking often makes it even more difficult for citizens to understand the content of concluded contracts. He notes that one of the problems of using the remote format of concluding contracts in banking was the use by third parties of various fraudulent schemes to gain access to the personal accounts of bank customers and issue loans to them, followed by transfer to the accounts of third (unidentified) persons. Banks, formally complying with the requirements established for the conclusion of consumer loan agreements, actually deprive customers of the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the terms of lending, and also do not always check the compliance of the nature of the use of funds the usual nature of account transactions.