Credit Card or Personal Loan Which One Is Better?
Credit cards and personal loans offer, a
priori, the same financial solution. They provide liquidity to meet certain
expenses, whether unforeseen or not. However, it is not the same to finance you
through a credit card than to do it through a personal loan. The latter allows dealing
with expenses with much higher amounts, to be repaid in longer amortization
terms, while credit cards allow obtaining liquidity in a very short term,
quickly and flexibly.
Let's see below what are the advantages
and disadvantages of choosing one or another type of financing.
Financing through credit card
Flexibility would undoubtedly be one of
the greatest advantages of credit cards as they offer the possibility of financing
purchases or expenses in different ways:
Fractioning payments:
through this form of financing the client will know from the beginning what instalments
he will pay and when he will pay off the debt.
Through monthly instalments:
they allow the client to know what the monthly payment will be.
Paying a percentage on debt:
it is probably the least attractive of the three options, as paying a
percentage on the debt will always leave a debt pending amortization that will
generate more interest.
However, not all benefits. The amount
that can be accessed through a credit card is more limited than the one offered
by the personal loan. You should pay special attention to the credit limit
granted by the bank. Overcoming it can lead to serious financial problems.
Financing through a personal loan
Faced with the flexibility of credit
cards, personal loans allow the customer to request higher amounts of money to
repay in longer repayment terms (between 5 and 7 years).
The advantages of personal loans with
regard to financing with credit cards are the interest rates that, although
high, do not even reach those that the plastic money applies.
The banks are restricting to the maximum
the granting of credits due, among others, to the high levels of delinquency.
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