Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Business Loan in India



In India, one will find varied loans that are provided by banks, financial institution and housing finance companies. Some of the popular loans are home loans, loan against property, auto loan, personal loan, credit card and many more. The person can even avail loans for initiating new business or business expansion, i.e. business loan. The person can avail business loan in India from various banks and financial institutions, such as HDFC, ICICI, Axis, SBI, Fullerton, DHFL, Standard Chartered, PNB, IDBI and many more.  The person can take business loan in India for various reasons such as for initiating new business, business expansion, purchase of raw material, purchase of machinery, purchase of warehouse, purchase of fixed assets, paying off short term debts, increase working capital and many more.

Business loan in India can be taken in two forms secured loans or unsecured loans. Secured business loan in India means the customer can avail business finance without providing security or collateral to the lender for availing the business loan in India. The person can pledge their business assets or property as collateral to the lender. The bank provides this loan at low interest rate for the longer tenure. Also, banks provide large sum of money, i.e. from Rs.20lacs to Rs.1cr, as a loan to the applicant. The customer can repay the loan amount through EMI. This is so; the bank has a low risk of lending, as the lender can seize the customer’s property or asset, in case; the customer does not do loan repayment.

Unsecured business loan in India means, the customer does not have to provide security or collateral for availing the business finance. The customer can avail this finance without providing security. Thus, banks provide this finance at 18-30% interest rate, which is little higher than from other loans and also; for shorter tenure, i.e. 1 to 5 years. Even they give this loan only up to Rs.20lacs. This is so; the risk of lending is high, if the customer defaults in loan repayment than bank has no other way for the recovery of their loan amount. Thus, banks check the customer profile before giving approval; for the business loan. The lender verifies these things through customer documents that customer submits with the business finance application form with the lender. Base on these documents, the lender decides about the business loan in India.