The previous comparison saw Guarantor Loans Online and Pounds to Pocket go head to head for a £1000 loan taken over 12 months. Today’s posting will compare the same loan amount and term, but will replace Pounds to Pocket with Provident Personal Credit who is of course the most popular doorstep loan lender in the UK today. There is no way to receive a loan of this amount at Provident for new customers and so to obtain this data the provident loan calculator was used for returning customers who do have access to £1000 (returns can actually stretch as far as £2500). In comparison, Guarantor Loans Online offer £5000 to all customers. Both of these subprime loans of course vary greatly from each other. With Guarantor Loans Online a monthly premium will be taken from your bank, whilst with Provident a weekly payment will be collected from your door.

Guarantor Loans Online (53.8% APR) = 25.316% Overall Cost
£1000 for 12 months = £1253.16
/52 = £24.10

Provident Personal Credit (272.2% APR) = 82% Overall Cost
£1000 for 12 months = £1820
/52 = £35

If you studied the initial comparison you will see that the “Overall Cost” is a calculation that shows the total cost of a loan as a percentage of the original loan amount. Each loan has also been split by 52 to show how much the loan would cost based on a weekly basis (if need be this was rounded off). In the previous loan comparison the overall cost of Pounds to Pocket stood at 86.866% and so as you can see Provident has improved on this with an 82% overall charge. Even this though is still way off the mark from Guarantor Loans Online with that charge that sits just over 25%. Through my experiences I am already aware of how competitively priced guarantor loans are and this is now backed up by the current comparisons ran here. More data is of course essential and so further comparisons will be following soon.

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This first comparison will be made between Guarantor Loans Online and Pounds to Pocket for a £1000 loan taken over 12 months. Guarantor Loans Online have been used due to their fixed APR charge (FLM provide a typical rate and so this rate can change). Pounds to Pocket have been the first company to be compared due to their rising popularity here in the UK. This is a popular lender at the moment that is regularly running TV ad campaigns and is part of the QuickQuid family; I will introduce Pounds to Pocket in detail in a later posting. Typically, many guarantor loan applicants tend to apply for larger loan amounts such as £2000 or £3000, but the £1000 loan example used here is ideal to compare, since there are many lenders out there offering this same loan amount (they don’t tend to offer £2000/£3000 loans).

Guarantor Loans Online (53.8% APR) = 25.316% Overall Cost
£1000 for 12 months = £1253.16
/52 = £24.10

Pounds to Pocket (277.06% APR) = 86.866% Overall Cost
£1000 for 12 months = £1868.66
/52 = £35.94

The “Overall Cost” is a calculation showing what percentage of the loan amount we would have to pay back. For example, if a £1000 loan required a £1500 repayment then this would be a 50% Overall Cost. I have also added the weekly cost by dividing the total loan amount by the 52 weeks in a year (if need be this was rounded off). To get to the comparison, as you can see Guarantor Loans Online offer a highly competitive charge at just over 25%, whilst Pounds to Pocket is almost approaching 87%. This is a vast difference in value between each of these loans and provides some perspective on just how impressive the guarantor loan market rates are today. As noted in the initial passage, Pounds to Pocket will be introduced at a later date, as they are an impressive lender that will transfer the cash in just minutes. This is interesting considering that no faxing is required and they do offer a possible £2000. Guarantor loans Online wins the price comparison battle today though.

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Logbook loans have gained popularity over the years, mainly due to them being no credit check loans. Logbook loan lenders don’t require a credit check since they secure the loan against your car (or other vehicle). The loan specially works by the lender keeping hold of the logbook (V5) and usually the MOT certificate throughout the term of the loan. This means that they have the legal right to take your car should you not be responsible to the debt! These subprime loans do work out very expensive for longer payment plans and so you should minimise that borrowing term. In regards to the logbook loan lenders, three popular names include Logbook Loans, Mobile Money and V5 Loans. Two newcomers include Car Cash Point and Easy Logbook Loans. Logbook loans tend to stretch up to £50,000, based on the value of your car. The loan duration can also be stretched over a few years.

Only specific interest examples are provided by each lender and so this makes it difficult to gather a true picture of the value of each company. Logbook Loans (via Simple Fast Loans) and Mobile Money were the only lenders to provide logbook loan calculators. I would assume from these numbers below that Logbook Loans stand as the cheapest, although it would be interesting to see Car Cash Point’s rates for a 72 week term. An additional example has been made for Logbook Loans for just 24 weeks (6 months). A 12 month example for them has also been added in the summary below that compares them with a guarantor loan lender on the same terms. Also just to add, the weekly premiums marked with (RO) are simply rounded off! This is due to the initial payment usually differing to the regular payment amounts due.

Compare Logbook Loan Rates…
Logbook Loans | £1000 loan over 72 weeks @ £39.54 (RO) = £2846.86 (184.686%)
Mobile Money | £1000 loan over 72 weeks @ £41.81 (RO) = £3009.96 (200.996%)
Easy Logbook Loans | £1000 loan over 24 weeks @ £131.66 = £3159.84 (215.984%)
Car Cash Point | £1000 loan over 104 weeks @ £32.63 = £3393.52 (239.352%)
V5 Loans | £1500 loan over 78 weeks @ £56.26 = £4388.28 (338.828%)

Other UK Logbook Loan Lenders…
Logbook Lenders | £800 loan over 72 weeks @ £33.53 (RO) = £2413.98 (201.748%)
Loans 4 Logbooks (321.6% APR is displayed, but there is no loan example)

Many logbook loan lenders display interest examples that differ in the term duration to their competitors; they may do this to disguise higher rates. The only two logbook lenders that did provide logbook loan calculators was Logbook Loans and Mobile Money, which is why you can see the 72 week comparisons for each above; the calculator wasn’t actually found on the Logbook Loans main site, but on a secondary site called “Simple Fast Loans” (same content and theme, although Simple Fast Loans comes with the calculator). As it stands, it is Logbook Loans that works out the cheapest of the pack although that interest rate just below 95% on the actual amount borrowed is still very high for that short term. I used the interest as a percentage rather than APR, since I prefer it and also the Easy Logbook Loans quote was 24 weeks (6 months) with APR being an annual calculation.

If you checked out the subprime credit card and doorstep loan comparisons you will see that a recommendation was made in each section. This is not going to happen here with Logbook Loans. There are a few reasons for this such as there being no relationship with a lender here. A major concern is in regards to the cost of these loans. As an example, the Logbook Loans lender tends to provide the best rates for these loan types and for a £1000 loan with them for 48 weeks (12 months) you would have to pay back in total £2553.66. In comparison, with Guarantor Loans Online for a £1000 loan for 48 weeks (12 months) you would pay back in total just £1253.16 (that’s a massive £1300.50 guarantor saving). Logbook lenders tend to have limits in place for the vehicle age as well such as being under 8 or 10 years old. They also usually have to be completely free of finance and be in a good condition to merit their value. With this in mind, no recommendation is made here.

Recommendation: See above.

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FLM Quick (or FLMQuick) is the younger brother of FLM Loans belonging to the Richmond Group family. I didn’t take too much notice of this new product when it launched, but when investigating them recently I was certainly impressed with the low costs available. What FLM has created here is essentially a new sub-niche of guarantor loans, that act as small guarantor loans. FLM isn’t the only provider in town as well, with Guarantor Loans (Blackheath Ltd) also creating a similar loan product; you may remember that they have always provided large guarantor loans, but now they have lowered the amounts from £100-£750. Moving back to FLM, you may wonder why I have shown such support for them here? A lot of this has to do with the low costs involved.

FLM Quick loans have been designed as a cheap alternative to payday loans. The cost is certainly a major selling point, with FLM Quick charging just under 10% of the loan amount borrowed for a month, whilst the major payday lenders tend to charge around 25/30% interest for a month. Traditional payday loans are monthly loans that unfortunately incur large charges for rollover lending. FLM Quick has an answer to this allowing the customer to keep the loan for as long as they like and only having to pay the interest charge for the month and just 1% of the balance. No expensive fees and no need to pay off full balances here. All of this sounds great, but there is one issue that is of course the hassle of having to use a guarantor for a small loan. What should be noted is that the requirements for a guarantor are much smaller here. The guarantor is required to have a good credit rating, but they don’t have to be a homeowner and can be 18 years old.

The loan process is much more simplified, due to the loans being paid out within the hour (I believe they use the Faster Payments service alike Wonga). You receive online account management and should you wish to clear your balance at any time then you will only be charged for the periods that the loan has been borrowed over. The FLM Quick reviews online have been very positive as well and so it looks like the Richmond Group is on to a winner with this loan product. The loan amounts start at £50 and this steps up to a £500 loan. It would be good to them stretch to perhaps £750 or £1000, but perhaps the idea they have is to devise more manageable loans. As far as I can tell, these work out as the cheapest loans on the market next to payday loans and other alternatives such as doorstep loans and logbook loans. A future posting will compare the rates to see if this is the case. As the norm, a credit check is only used for verification. It is the guarantor that is judged and so regardless of a poor credit history… fast cash up to £500 awaits you.

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There hasn’t been much coverage on FLM Loans here at Guarantor Loans UK so far and so this posting will provide a small review of the brand as they are functioning in 2011. FLM Loans arrived on the scene in 2005 and arrived as the first guarantor lender on the market. There was unsecured loan providers catering the subprime market before this time, but most were focused on credit checks, which is something that FLM Loans wanted to change. The guarantor applicant does have a basic credit check carried out on them, but this is made for identification and to simply check that they aren’t currently bankrupt. What determines the outcome of the loan will be the guarantor who steps in should the borrower happen to default at any time. Sam Wells is the managing director at FLM, who are a brand of The Richmond Group that is headed by James Benamor.

In 2011, FLM Loans have continued to move forward as a popular lender. When checking through the Google search volumes for all relevant terms, “FLM Loans” receives four times as many searches as the “guarantor loans” term does in a month and so this just shows how popular the brand is today. What is the reason for this? Well, I haven’t seen any FLM Loan TV ads and there isn’t extensive coverage online in comparison to perhaps the major payday loan lenders. In my view, the brand awareness has been greatly improved by the promotion received from Money Supermarket who themselves have become a dominant force in various competitive financial markets. Another reason is that The Richmond Group have continued to unleash new financial products such as Debt Line that would have helped to get people talking.

At this time, there are just three guarantor loan lenders. Other than FLM Loans, we have Guarantor Loans Online (from Central Trust PLC/UK Credit) and also TFS Loans (from TFS Loans Ltd). All guarantor terms are picking up in search volume and there seems to be many more guarantor themed sites popping up, which should help to keep a competitive edge with all the lenders and hopefully improve the loan products available. FLM Loans can boast one of the cheapest guarantor loan rates at 49.9% APR! The issue here is that this is a typical rate rather than fixed and so it doesn’t include broker fees and they can also up this rate should they feel fit to do so. FLM have a well designed site that includes account management and lots of thorough information throughout the support section. Because they have been active for such a long time now, they have managed to attract a loyal customer base and have setup further avenues to find more on such social sites as Facebook and Twitter.

The FLM Loan feedback is mostly positive and this is evident at the Review Centre. The FLM Loan reviews on this site were very supportive standing at a rating of 4.3/5 from around 400 reviews, which was a 91% thumbs up. This is an impressive track record and elsewhere the feedback usually stands in the green. They have won a number of awards in the world of finance and continue to work on lots of charity projects that is always good to hear. There are of course many other impressive subprime loan lenders operating on the market today and so shopping around in 2011 may just be the best way forward. Further analysis will certainly need to be made in the future to see just who can provide that very best deal.

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Most visitors to Guarantor Loans UK reach the site via the Google search engine. The idea today will be to study the most frequent search engine queries that visitors are entering to find us. Some of these questions may not have been addressed on the site before, although some of them will have been, but I thought it would be a good idea to throw them together in this one Guarantor Loans UK Q&A posting. The most frequent queries will be looked at today and over the future months new ones will be added here and so this will posting will be updated on a regular basis. If you have any questions that you would like to be answered then feel free to get in contact and they will also be added below. So let’s start with the Guarantor Loans UK Q&A…

Basic Guarantor Loan Requirements
This is not a query we found, but it is an important thing to cover. The basic requirements of all the guarantor lenders discussed on this site are very similar. You must be aged 18 or above and be living in the UK and you must also have a UK bank account where the payments can be taken from. The guarantor must be a UK homeowner, usually with a good credit rating.

FLM Loans Scam
There are always a few queries entered for FLM loans scam. Just to clear up here that FLM Loans is not a scam, in fact The Richmond Group who owns the brand is a highly trusted and top performing financial organisation here in the UK.

Genuine Bad Credit Loans
Another popular query. All of the bad credit loan lenders that are discussed on this site genuinely market their loan products for those with a bad credit history. The history of the company is always checked over and checks are made for such things as the consumer credit licence.

Global Guarantor Loans
Although most of our visitors are located within the UK, we have seen visitors scattering the entire globe come to these pages. The most popular countries after the UK are India, Italy, USA, Israel and Romania. Just to cover up the basics of international guarantor loans, all of the guarantor loans lenders featured here only provide the loans to consumers living in the UK. If you are living outside the UK, then you will not be able to receive a loan through this site.

Guarantor Loans 10000
This has been popping up more and more in recent months. Many consumers seem to be on the look out for a guarantor loan of £10,000. Unfortunately, this is a cash amount that is not available from the three guarantor loan lenders. FLM offer £3000 (£5000 on a top up), Guarantor Loans Online offer £5000.

Guarantor Loans Lenders
This has been the most popular query in recent months. The Guarantor Loan Lenders posting has been updated to address all lenders (new and old).

Guarantor Mortgage
Guarantor mortgages are very popular these days. A mortgage lender may ask for a mortgage guarantor to back your application. This guarantor will usually be a parent or friend of yours. For a first time buyer mortgage, it will be very common for the lender to ask for a guarantor, especially in light of it becoming more difficult to secure a mortgage due to the unstable financial climate across the globe.

No Credit Search Guarantor Loans
As I believe, each guarantor lender will carry out a credit check, but they don’t act on it, instead they judge you on the backing provided from your guarantor. Over the past, I was always under the impression that the companies were providing no credit check loans, but on closer inspection it turns out checks are made. FLM Loans now state “We do not rely on credit scores”, I am not sure with Guarantor Loans (Blackheath Loans) and Guarantor Loans Online informed me in their first few weeks that they do carry out a basic credit check, but bad credit isn’t a problem and the reliance is made on the guarantor who backs you.

No Guarantor Loans
Many consumers find it hard to find a guarantor. The alternatives have been discussed across this site such as doorstep loans, logbook loans, payday loans etc. I would personally recommend payday loans as a great solution. You can Compare Payday Loan Lenders Here.

Student Loan Guarantor
Guarantor student loans have been around for a long time in the United States whereby a student has had a loan backed by the government. Here in the UK, student accommodation tends to require guarantors. Usually, landlords will ask for parents as guarantors in a tenancy agreement to back the student accommodation for the year. This is specific to accommodation and not a general loan.

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Should you become bankrupt, this bankruptcy will mark a huge dent on your credit profile, but despite what people think this doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to once again use credit again. This mark will stay on your credit profile for 10 years, but it will disappear soon after this time. How long does it take to become discharged from bankruptcy? Well, this usually takes one year, but it can happen much sooner than this. Once you have become discharged from bankruptcy you can receive credit again, but you will have to accept the high interest rates that arrive with each various subprime loan. Subrime lending is big business for specialist lenders and so with that demand comes the supply. This posting today will be looking at that supply that is offered through various means. Take up these options and you will receive credit again, but more importantly you will get the opportunity to develop your credit profile again from scratch.

Bankruptcy happens to the best of them such as Donald Trump and Walt Disney who came out of the other side, with Donald Trump today having over a billion pound net worth and The Walt Disney Company today generating many billions of pounds. You will get the opportunity to start over too, but you need to make sure that you are fully responsible from this day on and building that credit profile is something that needs to be done (it won’t fix itself). Here at Guarantor Loans UK within the “Alternative” postings we have explored various UK subprime options such as doorstep loans, logbook loans, payday loans and so on. Generally, most of these specialist lenders will give you that chance to start over and prove yourself to them, but which option should you go for? Well, this depends on whether you wish to simply build your credit profile or whether you wish to receive larger amounts of cash (at the same time restoring your profile).

If we just look at the no credit check poor credit options, you will spot both guarantor loans and logbook loans. To provide some examples on the position of popular lenders within this areas… the guarantor loan lender FLM Loans have stated: “We can help customers who have been discharged from bankruptcy, as long as they have their certificate confirming this” and the logbook loan lender Mobile Money have stated: “We don’t care if you have a bad credit history, you’re self-employed, or you’re bankrupt!” For credit cards after bankruptcy, Vanquis can help you and the same goes with the major payday loan lenders. As I did note in a previous posting, most specialist bad credit lenders would require a direct debit to be made to collect payments and so you will need a banking facility; you do hear of some people losing their bank account after bankruptcy (our lender accepts standing order payments).

So as you can see, personal loans after bankruptcy are there for you, but you just need to make sure that you get things right this time around. The great thing about guarantor loans is of course that you can receive large cash amounts without being credit checked, but the lender will still report to the credit reference agencies to improve your credit profile. Most unsecured personal loan lenders for larger cash amounts will say no to you after bankruptcy or will offer you the loan with a very high interest rate; just remember that guarantor loans work out as much cheaper loans. If you wish to speed up the credit building process then you might want to look at a Cashplus Gold MasterCard through the Cashplus Gold Activeplus prepaid credit card account with its Creditbuilder facility. As I will always remind you, whichever option you do wish to take, just remember to always pay on time because if you don’t this huge dent on your credit profile will stay around for a much longer time.

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Do you need credit repair help to qualify for personal loans? Some of us are that far into the red that receiving personal loans can at times feel like mission impossible. If you continue to fail credit checks then perhaps no credit check loan lenders providing guarantor loans or logbook loans may be the only option for you. With a guarantor loan the problem you face is that you must be able to find a guarantor who would be willing to offer you that loan backing and with a logbook loan you must have a car that the loan can be secured against. If it so happens that these two options are out of the question for you then just what is the best option to get back on track with your personal finances? Well, the only option from here would be to repair poor credit blips by yourself. There are a number of ways to do this and I thought that I would provide a further suggestion today.

You are probably familiar with the usual guidance that you should work longer hours and pay back debts however you can each week no matter how small, so long as you are showing that you are making an effort to be fully responsible to due debts. What happens if things are much worse than this though and you have recently become bankrupt and now need to start over from scratch? Whatever the scenario, my solution would be for you to take out a prepaid credit card aided by a credit building facility. This would actually work well if you have recently been discharged from bankruptcy and have even lost the right to access your past bank account. As far as I’m aware, there is only one company providing this service in the UK at this time and this is through the Cashplus Gold MasterCard; the specific route you want is to take the Cashplus Gold Activeplus prepaid credit card option.

The Cashplus Gold Mastercard is a no credit check prepaid credit card that anyone can qualify for so long as you are over 18 and live in the UK. The gem with this card is their facility on this account named Creditbuilder. What will happen here is that you will pay 12 monthly instalments of £4.95 (£59.40); I believe there is also a £4.95 application fee and so this would total £64.35. These single payments are bound to a 12 month agreement and two credit reference agencies will be notified when each payment is made, which in 12 months time will generate lots of green ticks on your credit profile. As using this guaranteed prepaid credit card from day-to-day there will be no purchase fees, but there will be 0.99p ATM fees and £3.00 international ATM fees; obviously you can pay wages on the card, pay bills, shop online and so on.

I will be covering bankruptcy loans in another posting, but just to add here that you can still receive no credit check loans such as a guarantor loan or even a logbook loan if you have recently been discharged bankrupt. An issue with receiving these loans after bankruptcy is if you no longer have a bank account and would be unable to make direct debit payments to them. As far as I’m aware, logbook loan lenders allow standing order payments (Cashplus Gold Mastercard prepaid card provide these) and our chosen guarantor lender (Guarantor Loans Online) do, but FLM Loans are a no since they require a UK bank account with direct debit payments. So, whether you wish to qualify for better rate personal loans in the coming future, or perhaps you just want to develop a better credit rating, then you do need to take positive steps forward and Cashplus certainly offer an interesting avenue to pursue.

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If it is not possible for you to go ahead with a guarantor loan, for perhaps the reason that you can’t find a guarantor, then just what is the very best guarantor loan alternative? If you look to the contents to your right you will see a number of great suggestions such as a doorstop loan or perhaps a logbook loan, but in recent months I have come to the conclusion that the really efficient loan products are coming from the major UK payday loan lenders. Although there are a large number of impressive payday loan lenders operating on the UK market today, it is really the two headliners that pull out all the stops and a recent comparison I made allowed me to see this more clearly. These two major headliners are of course PaydayUK and QuickQuid who continue to take a large market share of all payday loans (cash advances) in the UK.

Now, both PaydayUK and QuickQuid do carry out a credit check, but they do actually say yes to more people than any other payday loan lender does, showing great leniency towards those possessing a poor credit profile. PaydayUK have always set the interest bar at 25% of the amount that you borrow, whilst QuickQuid offer either 20%, 25% or 29.5%! These three tiers are matched to your credit profile and so you may just fall into the 29.5% bracket. The great thing about these lenient credit checks are that both PaydayUK and QuickQuid will report to the major credit reference agencies and so you can build your profile from scratch with them. Both guarantor loans and payday loans are ideal if you do wish to climb that financial ladder, but of course this is only possible if there are no glitches once you do receive a loan from any of them.

What makes these two payday loan lenders have a greater edge over every other subprime solution available today is due to the great efficiency of these loan products. You receive a hassle-free loan, whereby no faxing is required – if they say yes, the money is sent your way straight away! The next stage here would be to look at how quickly the money is then sent over! Well, QuickQuid provide free same day payments and PaydayUK have in the past provided BACS payments that can take three days to clear. As you can see from the banner below, PaydayUK have upped their game and are now offering “Faster Payments”! And so today, both payday loan lenders provide a same day payday loan with no faxing! As much as I love guarantor loans, there’s never going to be a day that you can receive one on the same day and you’ll always have to send off documentation to complete the loan process.

Of course, a guarantor loan is a large unsecured loan product providing new customers with a loan amount of up to £3000. The problem with the named payday loans will be the amount of funds available and of course the time span that such amounts have to be paid back. It would usually be a good idea to start off borrowing £100 from PaydayUK or QuickQuid and then as a returning customer you could be granted £750 with PaydayUK and an impressive £1500 with QuickQuid; there is always an option to rollover your payday loan if there is ever a problem with paying the loan back when the payment date arrives! The loan amounts and repayment plans make guarantor loans stand out here, but a payday loan could quickly develop your credit score, so you could later apply for a large unsecured loan with a lower interest rate to that of a guarantor loan.

In my opinion, the best guarantor loan alternative would be found by going through either PaydayUK or QuickQuid who both offer benefits that other subprime lenders can’t match today. Don’t forget that these two payday lenders allow you to run your account management online and have a very responsive support desk which is always handy! I think above all else, these are very fast hassle-free loans that allow you to quickly rebuild your credit profile from scratch. The payday loan boom has continued to expand over the past year. The lenders continue to develop greater loan products and you can even see the big names such as QuickQuid and Wonga on our TV screens. So the quality and popularity is certainly here, showing no signs of slowing down. If a guarantor loan is out of the question today then why not try on of the payday loan giants?

Payday Loan Lender: PaydayUK

Payday Loan Lender: QuickQuid
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There are a good number of words particularly in the world of finance that earth in the United States, they then rise in popularity and then quickly make their way over here to the UK. “Subprime” is a good example of a word that in the past several years has become very popular in the United States and it has now more recently become a popular term here in Britain. One such popular word looming from the United States that is not so popular over here is the term “surety”! I have heard it a few times recently and so wanted to cover its meaning here today at Guarantor Loans UK, as you will find that it has a rather relevant meaning with the theme of this site.

A surety is a financial term that has exactly the same meaning as guarantor does. And so, a guarantor or a surety is the name given to any such party that would assume responsibility for a borrowers debt. If there is any missed payment (default) on this agreed loan then the surety would step in to cover the owed funds missed by the borrower. The borrower’s track record alone may look too risky and so this surety would help to support a borrowers loan application! So, a guarantor loan and a surety loan has the same definition, but the surety term is relatively unknown here in the UK. It does have significant usage over in the United States though, but that is more to do with the “surety bond” term.

Just what is the meaning of a surety bond? Well, a surety bond is a contract that would include three parties who are the obligee, the principal and the surety. It is the surety who assures the obligee that the principal can perform the given task; you can probably see the similarities there with the surety being the simple “backing” that supports any such contract. Finally, another financial term that has the same meaning as “guarantor” and as “surety” that has not been covered here on the blog as yet is “loan guarantee”! You’re not really likely to hear these other terms being used much here in the UK, but I thought it would be a good idea to cover the basic ins and outs.

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