lender:
(plural: ‘lenders‘; the word opposite in meaning is ‘borrower’)

an individual lender
a person who gives someone something, especially money on condition that the amount is returned after sometime, usually with interest, or a person who gives credit in business dealings (a moneylender);
a loaner (a person who gives loans, credit, etc.),

a lender (a lending company)
A lender has equal rights according to a court of law, but in the society, a lender has little sympathy or support from the public.
A lender is a god to a borrower when the latter is in need of something, but once the need is satisfied and the lender starts asking for repayment, the same lender is despised as if he/she were a devil!
The world economy rotates on the axis of the system of lending and borrowing, and the lenders of all kinds play an important role in making a society stronger or weaker.
As the global financial recessions is not showing any signs of recovery, more and more people, states and countries are looking desperately for any sort of moneylenders who cac pull them out of the debt quagmire.
