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Bad Credit Personal Loans: Can You Get One? |
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 By: Corey Landis
Bad credit personal loans can be pretty painful. In addition to high interest rates, you are also forced to contend with inflated late fees. You may not be aware, but many of these loans include prepayment penalties, which means that if you try to get ahead and pay off your loan ahead of schedule, the lender will exact payment of all interest lost in addition to the sum of the principal balance. And, there will most likely be a demand for collateral, an asset you own such as your car or house, since an unsecured loan puts the bank
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 Collateral, especially within banking, may traditionally refer to secured lending. Collateral presents unilateral obligations, secured in the form of property, surety, guarantee or other as collateral (originally denoted by the term security).
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 In the United States, an individual's credit history is compiled and maintained by companies called credit bureaus. Credit worthiness is usually determined through a statistical analysis of the available credit data. A common form of this analysis is a 3-digit credit score provided by independent financial service companies such as the FICO credit score.
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A credit rating assesses the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even a country. Credit ratings are calculated from financial history and current assets and liabilities. Typically, a credit rating tells a lender or investor the probability of the subject being able to pay back a loan. |
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In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan. The collateral serves as protection for a lender against a borrower's risk of default - that is, a borrower failing to pay the principal and interest under the terms of a loan obligation. If a borrower does default on a loan (due to insolvency or other event), that borrower forfeits (gives up) the property pledged as collateral - and the lender then becomes the owner of the collateral. |
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