Unprotected Secured Student Loan
- Last updated on 14 Jul 2020
Low Rate Personal Loan Secured
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Fixed
7.99%
8.21%
Low Rate Personal Loan Unsecured (Excellent Credit)
Variable
12.95%
13.34%
$250
$10k to $75k
based on $20,000 loan amount for 3 years
Pros
- No ongoing fees
- No early repayment fees
- Can apply online
- Can apply in branch
- Redraw facility available
Cons
- Application fee charged
- Requires security to be held
New Car | Total repayments $40,909 |
Used Car | Early Exit Penalty Fee $0 |
Motorcycle | Missed Payment Penalty $15 |
Boat | Redraw Activation Fee $0 |
Student Loan | Repayment Type Variable |
Debt Consolidation | Loan Type Secured |
Renovation | Available to 457 Visa Holders |
Shares | Redraw Facility |
Holidays | Extra Repayments |
Medical Bill | Line Of Credit |
Wedding | Upfront Fee $250 |
Ongoing Fee $0 | Borrowing range $10k - $75k |
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The Capricornian is a community-owned bank that is 100 per cent owned by its members, and is Central Queensland’s only local customer-owned bank.
As a small financial institution, The Capricornian only has six branches for its members to visit, all located in Central Queensland.
In addition to personal loans, The Capricornian also offers members products such as savings accounts, bank accounts, credit cards, insurance and home loans.
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FAQs
Completing an online personal loan application can often take anywhere from 10 minutes to 1 hour. Depending on your lender, processing your personal loan application may take anywhere between 1 and 24 hours. If your personal loan application is approved, you may receive the money in your bank account the following business day, or, in some cases, the same day.
It is possible for students with no available history of borrowing or managing money to get a personal loan, though it may be more difficult as well as expensive than for borrowers with a good credit history.
Having no credit history means having no credit score. While many lenders may consider having no credit score to be better than having a bad credit score, they may still consider it riskier to lend to an unknown borrower and may charge higher interest rates or fees than to borrowers with good credit scores.
A bad credit personal loan is ‘unsecured’ when the borrower doesn’t offer up an asset (such as a car or jewellery) as collateral or security. Lenders charge higher interest rates on unsecured loans than secured loans.
A bad credit personal loan is 'secured' when the borrower offers up an asset, such as a car or jewellery, as collateral or security. If the borrower fails to repay the loan, the lender can then seize the asset to recoup its losses.
While some personal loans can be secured by the value of an asset, such as a car or equity in a property, student personal loans are often unsecured, which typically have higher interest rates.
Some lenders also offer guarantor personal loans to students. These loans have lower interest rates, as a guarantor (usually a relative of the borrower with good credit) will fully or partially guarantee the loan, taking on the financial responsibility if the borrower defaults.
Comprehensive credit reporting is a system which includes both positive and negative information on a person’s credit file. Before comprehensive credit reporting was introduced, only negative information was included.
A person is deemed to have ‘bad credit’ when they have a poor history of managing credit and repaying debts.
It may be much more difficult for a self-employed borrower to successfully apply for a personal loan if they also have bad credit. Many lenders already consider self-employed borrowers to be riskier than those in full-time employment, so some self-employed personal loans require borrowers to have excellent credit.
If you’re a self-employed borrower with a bad credit history, there may still be personal loan options available to you, such as securing your personal loan against a vehicle of equity in a property, though your interest rates may be higher than those of other borrowers. Consider contacting a lender before applying to discuss your options.
Borrowers who take out bad credit personal loans don’t just pay higher interest rates than on regular personal loans, they also get loaned less money. Each lender has its own policies and loan limits, but you’ll find it hard to get approved for a bad credit personal loan above $50,000.
It’s unusual for a lender to provide a personal loan of above $100,000, although there is no formal limit. As with all lending products, each lender sets its own policies, while each borrower is assessed on a case-by-case basis.