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Private Student Loans Are Becoming More Competitive
Private lenders are moving into the market for fixed-rate student loans and starting to compete directly against government options
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Passbook Savings Loans are Secured by Savings, CD Balances
Borrowing against your own cash and paying interest on that loan might seem counterintuitive, but savings account customers across the country are doing just that.
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Student loans: Banks vs. feds
For the first time ever, students might find it cheaper to borrow from a private bank than from the federal government.
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Amigo Loans and the dangers of being a guarantor
A new loan company is offering loans without credit checks or fees. The catch? You need to persuade someone who owns their own home to guarantee it.
uk.finance.yahoo.com
Discover Announces Fixed-Rate Private Student Loans
Discover Student Loans, one of the largest originators of private student loans in the United States, announced today new fixed-rate loans for undergraduate and graduate students w
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Student loans require homework
During a recent online discussion, lots of people had questions about student loan debt. Here are my answers to a couple I didn’t get a chance to address. One person wanted to know whether when carrying student loan debt — in this case at 7 percent — you should dip into your savings to pay it off. The reader wrote: “The debt would be paid off in a year at my current payment rate. Since the ...
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Banks' rising bad loans add to Spanish troubles
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish banks' bad loans rose in March to their highest in 18 years, underscoring the problems facing the government as it drafts in independent auditors in an attempt to reassure investors it can clean up the sector. The Bank of Spain said bad loans rose to 8.37 percent of banks' outstanding loans, the highest since August 1994 and up from 8.3 percent in February, which was ...
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China Big Four Banks Issue CNY34 Billion New Yuan Loans in May - Report
China's biggest four banks issued only CNY34 billion ($5.4 billion) in new yuan loans in the first three weeks of May, and their deposits declined by CNY270 billion over the same period, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified banking sources.
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Consumer loans rise 15% in 2011
CONSUMER LOANS extended by universal, commercial and thrift banks increased as of end-December last year as people turned to bank financing to buy cars or acquire or build houses, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday said.
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Rise of the 'Greyday' Loans
CHESTER, England, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --1.7 million grandparents and parents pushed into the red due to financial reliance from children and grand childrenOver half of grandparents of children over ...
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