What is a credit loan? What are the important characteristics of credit loans that you need to know?
20/12/2023What is credit?
What is credit? This is understood as an economic relationship between a lender and a borrower, in which the lender transfers the right to use an amount of assets (money, goods, services) to the borrower for a certain period of time. When the debt is due, the borrower must repay the borrowed asset, usually with interest.
This type of loan can be classified according to the following criteria:
- According to participating subjects: individuals, businesses, state, international.
- According to purpose of use: consumption, production, business, investment.
- By term: short term, medium term, long term.
- According to interest rate: fixed interest rate, floating interest rate.