![]() | Credit Card Secret Guarantee Most people use credit cards in some form or another but few truly appreciate one of the special features of credit cards that make using their credit card to insure their purchases. - read more
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![]() | Simple Tips On Getting Your Loan So, you want to get a loan? Here are some simple tips that might help you make more informed decisions about the type of loan you buy, and from whom. - read more
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![]() | 18 Hot Tips For Intending Borrowers If you're thinking of borrowing money to buy a car, boat, debt consolidation, home repairs, medical bills or anything else for that matter, here are some red hot tips to make the process much, much easier. - read more
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![]() | How Credit Card Balance Transfers Can Damage Your Credit Rating Since the banks and finance providers have been castigated for the way they seemingly indiscriminately awarded credit to people who could ill afford it, the chances of being accepted for loans and credit cards have decreased. Concurrently, there is a greater focus on individual's being aware of how credit works and what their financial behaviors means in terms of a credit score and history. - read more
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![]() | Default and Reposession Most people would assume that a default under a loan contract means that payments haven't been made but, as you are about to learn, there are other reasons why a lender may have the right to repossession. - read more
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![]() | Balloon Payment Loans: 6 steps to make the loan profitable Did you know that you can reduce the monthly payments on a loan to half of what they should be by using a balloon payment? Handled correctly, structuring your loan to include a Balloon Payment will increase your bottom line. Mishandled, a Balloon Payment can cause real headaches. Here are 6 steps to keep it smart. - read more
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![]() | When should I use a personal loan? Unsecured personal loans can really help in a pinch. If your savings are low and your car breaks down, for example, such a loan can patch up your life. Or maybe you're buying a big-ticket item and you need backup money to cover a short-term hole in your bank account. - read more
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![]() | Loan Finance: How to Shop Around Without Damaging Your Credit If you are considering taking out a loan, you wouldn’t go out of your way to make it harder on yourself to get approved or to get a good interest rate, would you? Yet many loan applicants would enjoy a considerably better outcome on their loan application if they followed this important rule.
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![]() | Why Payday Lending Enhances Consumer Welfare Today, We’ll defy the critics and demonstrate why consumer welfare is enhanced within a competitive payday-lending environment. - read more
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![]() | Interest rates up another 50 basis points with more hikes to come 03 Aug 2022: . As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised interest rates by another 50 basis points this month. The fourth rate hike in as many months, today’s decision takes the cash rate from an emergency low of 0.1% to 1.85%. - read more |
![]() | Business loans on the rise while mortgage growth remains flat 02 Jun 2022: . Australian business loans growth accelerated in April as mortgage growth stayed consistent, with major banks growing at less than the system average according to latest RBA data. - read more |
![]() | Homebuyers up in the air despite new government home loan support 29 May 2022: . The government’s promise of an equity contribution will help the most disadvantaged Australians to get a home loan, but they still won't be able to afford one. - read more |
![]() | RBA lifts official interest rate 03 May 2022: .financialservicesonline.com.au The Reserve Bank of Australia lifted the official cash rate by 25 basis points at its meeting Today. - read more |