Here’s how you can avail of a loan despite having a poor credit score

The following tips and suggestions will help you avail loan to deal with financial exigencies or unavoidable life-events, despite your poor credit score.

BUSINESS STANDARD – Banks and NBFCs use credit scores to evaluate the creditworthiness of loan and credit card applicant. Credit score of 750 and above are considered as good and hence, those not making the cut have very low chances of loan or credit card approval or pay higher rates for them. While there are time-tested methods of improving your credit score, those take time and patience. The following tips and suggestions will help you avail loan to deal with financial exigencies or unavoidable life-events, despite your poor credit score:

Opt for secured loan:

Secured loans are those in which the loan applicant has to pledge asset(s) as security or collateral against the loan amount. Loan against property, loans against fixed deposits, loan against securities, gold loan are some of the most popular variants of secured loans. As the lenders have the option to sell your collateral in the event of a loan default, they may ignore or relax the requirement of a good credit score while evaluating your creditworthiness.|BS

For borrowers with similar credit profiles, secured loans usually have a lower interest rate than the unsecured loans. Given that those with lower credit score might have to pay a higher interest rate on an unsecured loan, opting for a secured loan might help in reducing your interest cost.

Approach NBFCs and housing finance companies (HFCs):

NBFCs and HFCs usually have less stringent loan evaluation processes than banks. NBFCs and HFCs usually target borrowers avoided by banks. Hence, those with lower credit score may have higher chances of loan approval from NBFCs than banks…Read More

Planning to withdraw cash on your credit card? Watch out for the expenses

You could end up paying not just a steep rate of interest but a hefty cash advance fee as well. In several cases the cost of the loans exceeds 36% on an annualised basis

Rahul, 24, landed himself a new job in Delhi at a multinational company. He had just shifted to the new city from Mumbai, but was soon soon hit a cash crunch brought about by a variety of reasons.

The money he got from his parents was exhausted, pay day was still very far away and, to make matters worse, his landlord began pestering him for some more money for the house he’d already paid advance rent and deposit.

All this meant that he needed some quick cash that he was finding really difficult to raise. So he decided to use his new credit card to sort out everything. Just go to the ATM, insert your card, punch in the PIN number and amount and bingo! You get the money you want so badly.

It was only a few weeks later that he realised that easy liquidity comes with some unpleasant side effects. When Rahul received his monthly credit card bill, he was shocked to see the charges — interest and processing fee — that the card issuer had bunged him with.

Here are some of the charges such loans attract:

Cash advance fee: This fee is charged every time a credit card is used to withdraw cash and typically varies from 2.5% to 3% of the withdrawn amount, subject to a minimum amount of Rs 300 to Rs 500.

Finance charges:

You will also have to pay a finance charge on cash advance fee at a rate similar to that charged on the withdrawn amount. It will be levied from the date of withdrawal till the amount is paid back in full.

Interest:

This is charged at the monthly percentage rate and will be levied from the date of transaction till the repayment is made in full.

Article Source : BS

Yogi Adityanath's farm loan waiver: SBI, PNB, Allahabad Bank top exposure

The state government has formed an eight-member committee to implement the decision

 

#LATEST| State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Allahabad Bank lead the pack of commercial banks with exposure to the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh, where the state government has decided to pay all crop loans owed by small and marginal farmers. 

As of December 2016, nine banks (also including Union Bank of India, Bank of India and Bank of Baroda) had extended loans worth Rs 70,046 crore to the agriculture sector in the state. Of this, crop loans were Rs 49,811 crore.

 The state government has formed an eight-member committee under Chief Secretary Rahul Bhatnagar to implement the decision. Sources said the committee would formalise the loan waiver with the banks by April 21. It will also try to find ways for making payment to the banks by May 15, so that farmers will be in a position to avail of crop loans this year. There are 700,000 farmers in the state whose combined Rs 5,630-crore debt has been declared non-performing by the banks; they cannot get new loans.(READ MORE)

Why are More People Applying for Personal Loans?

 

Why do people prefer Personal Loans

There are many factors that make Personal Loans more attractive.

• Easy to get: Personal Loans are easier to obtain than many other types of loans.
• Flexible usage: You can use the funds in a variety of ways. You can use it to pay for a vacation or a medical emergency. You can use it to fund a wedding, renovate a house, and more. 
• Quick process: It can take as little as three days to get approval for a Personal Loan. Just make sure you have all the necessary documentation.
• No collateral: Personal Loans are unsecured loans. In other words, they are not backed by any collateral. This helps reduce the documents required for your loan application or even the duration of the vetting process. 

You can even apply for a Personal Loan from the convenience of your home. All you need to do is visit the lender’s website. An application for a Personal Loan from Bajaj Finserv , for instance, usually takes seconds for approval and you can get funds of up to Rs.25 lakh in as little as 72 hours. 

The bottom line

Personal Loans are popular today, but it is important that you opt for a professional lender to avail financing. Keep the various factors in mind when you apply for a Personal Loan and take the first step towards fulfilling your financial goals. (read more...)