It was a risk, but she took out a credit card loan and paid for it.
Plenty of those flats were bought with credit but loan-to-value ratios were, many bankers claim, conservative, while standards are nothing like as loose as in America.
"This fall, we will almost surely be told by the Bush Administration that Eximbank and Commodity Credit Corporation loan guarantees are needed for U.S. firms and banks to compete with our allies in the Soviet market, " noted Roger W. Robinson, Jr.
For that reason, financial advisers continue to advise borrowers to exhaust every other option a home-equity line of credit, a loan from a family member or a high-interest credit card before pawning anything.
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American expatriates should consider having at least one credit card or loan tied to a U.S. address to maintain a credit score.
The ugly acronym covers a swarm of different institutions including community credit unions, loan funds and microfinance funds whose goal is to provide credit and capital to poor people who lack access to conventional financial services, such as banks.
Building wealth is not only about growing your assets, but also reducing your liabilities, be it a mortgage, student loan, car loan, credit card debt, or a small business loan.
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And thank goodness I also had a car because my destroyed credit made it impossible to get a loan or a credit card with a reasonable rate.
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Credit (a loan or a bond) is not generally acceptable as a means of payment.
The Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index tracks the performance of senior loans.
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The average credit rating of a typical High Yield Corporate bond portfolio is higher than that of the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index.
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Cheap credit, lax loan terms and willing bond buyers fueled the dealmaking frenzy and then shared the blame for driving many companies under.
Unlike credit scoring systems (like Fico) that can't see the layer of activity below credit card and loan payments, Fiserv tracks consumer accounts, debit card payments and online bill-pay habits.
The statements listed the FRNs as collateral (although they had already been sold) and showed the quarterly interest purportedly earned on the FRNs (which were shown as a credit against the loan interest).
Taking out a loan, or a line of credit, or a home equity loan, or even a loan from your dad.
Consumer credit is almost wholly covered within the bank credit data, as are most other types of credit that fuel short-term growth, so total bank credit provides a better idea of what is happening right now regarding home purchases, car financing, education loan funding and credit card use among other things.
The sites make their money offering loan and credit-card deals, along with other services.
That is one reason why the credit quality of their loan books has been deteriorating sharply.
Also helping banks is improved credit quality as burdensome loan portfolios have been offloaded since early 2009.
Or you may want a loan or credit-card payment processed immediately to avoid high fees from payees.
SaveUp.com awards credits to users who reduce their loan and credit card balances and view educational videos.
She was living in New York, trying to pay student-loan and credit-card bills.
Credit scores treat student loan debt just like any other installment debt (and make no distinction between federal and private loans).
At least that is the way it works when an ordinary citizen judged to be a bad credit risk seeks a loan.
On average, their monthly debt payments, including mortgage, credit cards, auto loan and paying back friends come to 64% of pretax income.
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Louis Fed, yet they have been criticized for failing to lend those out, given tighter credit markets and lower loan demand amid a slow economy.
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Against that, a big lesson from the crisis is not to rely too much on short-term interest rates to rein in credit and home-loan booms.
They were sold as an add-on when customers were understandably focussing on their primary objective - getting a credit card, a loan or a mortgage.
Trouble in the mortgage markets is only just now starting to seep into credit portfolios, and loan losses for the banking industry are expected to mushroom this year.
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