When the concept of banking first arrived on the scene, a bank was viewed as a place where people could deposit their money in order to keep it safe. This was the premise of the most ancient of the banks.
The next major change in banking was the concept of charging interest for a loan. For the longest period of time, laws against Usury kept this from happening in Christian countries – an interpretation of the Bible forbade charging interest on loans. Later, this expanded to paying people interest to hold deposits within the bank.
There is no bank in the world that does not issue loans; it’s their primary reason for existence. Modern banks offer a wide array of loan products for every consumer (and business) need.
Most people’s first relationship with a bank is for a checkbook, or for a savings account. Their second is usually a loan of some sort.
In fact, my first loan was for the purchase of my first new car. After this, I took a home mortgage loan to purchase a condo.
Nobody in the present day and age (unless they are born to money) has enough money lying around to make big ticket purchases like a condo or house, without having to resort to a bank loan.
A typical bank loan for a home runs 15 to 30 years, and most people will end up accruing equity in a home, paying interest on it, and otherwise, becoming home owners in fee simple.
Other bank loans are issued for various reasons, from personal loans to buy items that matter to you, all the way to lines of credit tied to an asset. Personal loans are usually used for things like marriages, emergencies, and major repaired. Secured loans are usually tied to improving the value of the asset that’s securing the loan.
And then of course, there are student bank loans. There are bank loans that will help you buy a car. And again, there are bank loans that will help you buy computers, washing machines and other consumer goods.
Broadly speaking, even credit cards are a form of a bank loan that you can repay. And some banks even offer you loans to pay up other loans you may have taken in the past!
Most loans issued worldwide to consumers are housing and mortgage loans. They’re a tiny fraction of the business debt market, where the entirety of the financial industry runs off of leveraging assets by taking out loans.
Whether it is a small business operated out of the home or a large business that needs millions of dollars in order to tide over a cash flow problem or to acquire assets, banks loans issued to businesses far outstrip individual bank loans.
One could go so far as to say that without bank loans, the vast majority of business worldwide would collapse. Small wonder then that banking, and by association investment, lending, finance and credit are the words that drive business in the modern day.
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