Borrowing for weeks, not years
Not all loans have long terms. A short-term loan is characterized by a much shorter time span – the money is repaid within a few weeks or months and not over several years. Moreover, it is used for covering a specific periodic need and not for buying an expensive asset. The method of repayment varies from product to product: while some products require repayment of the whole sum on a certain date, others involve repayment in several instalments. In both cases, the common feature is that repayment should be made within a relatively short period. Since a lot of short-term loan products belong to the category of high-cost short-term credits, th ey are subject to special FCA price caps which do not apply to other types of lending. The interest and additional charges may not be higher than 0.8% per day of the borrowed sum; the maximum amount of default fee is £15, and the cost of the whole loan may not be higher than the sum that was initially borrowed. In other words, nobody has to repay...