Sunday, 25 March 2012

What You Know About Borrowing From Payday Loan Providers

By Theodore Turangall


Payday loans are small, short-term loans which are secured against the borrower's next pay check. There are payday loan lenders online as well as offline. To get a payday loan, you will write the lender a check for the amount you want to borrow plus interests and other fees. If you are borrowing from payday loan lenders online, you have to pledge to pay the borrowed amount by a certain date. The loan provider will then transfer funds to your bank account or write a check for you for the sum you wish to borrow. The payday lending company will keep your check for the duration of the loan, typically fourteen days. They will convert the check to cash or debit from your banking account at the end your loan's term.

The primary benefit of payday loans is that they are accessible, especially to individuals who are not eligible to loans provided by big lending establishments like banks. Direct payday loan lenders usually have modest requirements. In most instances, you need to be at least 18 years of age, and have a verifiable regular source of income, and a checking or savings account in a local bank.

In most cases, direct payday loan lenders do not do credit checks. More often than not, whether you are borrowing from payday loan lenders online or offline, you will receive the money on the same day.

The oft-mentioned criticism of payday loans is that they have higher interests. Direct payday loan lenders assert that their fees are reasonable because of their modest requirements. Also, they also do not perform credit checks, making these types of loans available even to high-risk borrowers. Moreover, reports of predatory lending practices are also not unheard of. To avoid being in that situation yourself, you should be sagacious in selecting which company to borrow from.

Payday lenders in the UK are governed by the Office of Fair Trading or OFT. So for your protection, only work with lenders that have a current license from the OFT. Also remember that the government does not restrict payday lenders in the UK in terms of their interest rates, but instead are only mandated to display their effective annual percentage rate. So before affixing your signature, always study the loan contract, note for fine print and know how much you have to pay in interest.




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