Capital One is known globally for serving the fair and poor credit markets with loans and credit cards. However, it doesn’t offer personal loans in the UK. To make sure you can still pay for that dream wedding venue, new car or any other large personal costs, we take you through some other options.
Capital One does not offer personal loans and recently ended its mortgage program as well. This could be part of a larger trend of big banks moving away from lending in general since the 2008 financial crisis. It also could be that Capital One just wants to focus on what it’s best known for: credit cards. Or, it’s possible the bank shifted its focus to experiments like the Capital One Cafe, a combination of a coffee shop and local bank branch meant to appeal to millennials.
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If you feel let down by mainstream lenders, either because you don’t meet eligibility criteria or because your credit history is less than perfect, then the good news is that there are serveral lenders in the UK that are aiming to help. Lenders such as Lendable – a peer-to-peer lending service – provide fast, secure, personalised service that can provide an option when your credit is less than perfect. Requesting a quote takes just a few minutes and its soft credit search option means it will not affect your credit rating.
With an emphasis on building or rebuilding your credit history, specialist lenders often assess applicants more on how affordable a loan would be than their credit rating. However the downside is that because of the higher risk these loans represent to the lender, realistically, interest rates are likely to be significantly higher.
While these loans generally come with a higher interest rate, as they represent a greater risk to a lender, they are more readily available to people who might struggle to get finance through the regular lending streams.
Peer-to-peer platforms cut out the institutional “middle man”, bringing together lenders seeking bank-beating interest rates and responsible borrowers. Because these companies don’t have the same overheads as big high street banks, they are sometimes able to offer better rates.
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