I came across an interesting case in a business daily a few weeks back. A consumer forum bench directed ICICI Bank to pay Rs 55,000 to a borrower. Here is how this happened. The borrower signed up for a home loan of Rs 30 lacs for 10 years from ICICI Bank in 2006. The loan… Continue Reading
When we are looking for home loans, we tend to go with the loan product that charges the lowest rate of interest. What if the bank were to charge you a negative interest rate? Essentially, the bank pays you to take a loan from them. Not possible? Well, a Danish Bank has just done that.… Continue Reading
For most young professionals, buying a house tops the list of priorities. Even those who do not believe real estate makes for a good investment, do not have second thoughts about purchasing a house to stay in. Not only does it give you the comfort of living in own house, it also provides financial security… Continue Reading
That’s right. You just need to think of the bank as an investor. For the bank, a loan is an investment that it earns interest (return) on. You take a loan of Rs 50 lacs at 9% p.a. for 20 years. It is a bullet repayment loan. You pay the entire amount at the end… Continue Reading
We regularly discuss unique and innovative loan products on this website. A few weeks back, we had discussed Step Down Home Loans launched by a prominent financial institution. In this post, we discuss a unique home loan product from Axis Bank. Axis Bank has recently launched a new product “QuikPay Home Loan”. Let’s find out… Continue Reading
If you want to repay your home loan quickly, the only way out is to make some prepayments on the home loan. Many use their annual bonuses to make big prepayments on their home loans. Not surprising that average home loan tenure in India is about 7-8 years. What if you can’t manage very big… Continue Reading
Technology has made things easier for most of us. From purchasing gadgets and groceries to making travel and hotel bookings, everything can now be done in a few clicks or taps. Mobile wallets such as PayTm, Amazon Pay and PhonePe have add to convenience in a big way. You can now easily make your mobile,… Continue Reading
Recently, I got a promotional email from a bank to convert credit card outstanding to EMIs. The EMI amount will be added to the credit card statement every month. I have discussed such deal structures in much greater detail in an earlier post. However, there have been a few interesting developments in the payments space that such… Continue Reading
I was recently browsing Amazon.in to purchase an electronic item. When I checked out the payment options, I found many No-Cost EMI offers from various banks. A No-cost EMI means that the sum total of all your EMI payments is equal to the cost of the item. i.e., even though you make payments over many… Continue Reading
Recently, I watched an ad from Flipkart about Debit Card EMI. This sounded a bit strange to me. Typically, you would associate EMI with a credit card or a loan. Getting a credit card is not always easy. Your credit card application can get rejected for various reasons. A bad credit score is a common… Continue Reading