Not historically -- not in Faust nor in the history of the concept [1]. You're certainly free to call borrowing money a "deal with the devil" or a "Faustian ba

Not historically -- not in Faust nor in the history of the concept [1]. You're certainly free to call borrowing money a "deal with the devil" or a "Faustian bargain", if it's something you can describe as metaphorically "selling your soul" -- e.g. losing control of your company or giving up your vision for it -- but the concept did not arise out of anything related to lenders. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil