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SOURCES OF CREDIT
1. PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
2. RETAIL STORES
3. PAWNSHOPS
4. SAVINGS & MORTGAGE BANKS
5. MUTUAL SAVINGS BANKS
6. SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
7. CREDIT UNIONS
8. INSURANCE COMPANIES
9. PENSION FUNDS
10. BOND AND MONEY MARKET FUNDS
11. SALES FINANCE COMPANIES
12. BANKS
SOURCES OF CREDIT
1. PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
1. PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS
2. RETAIL STORES
3. PAWNSHOPS
3. PAWNSHOPS
3. PAWNSHOPS
3. PAWNSHOPS
A pawnshop is a store or form of business that
lends money to consumers who carry valuable
items to be pawned.
These valuables are referred to as “collateral.” The
precious asset will only be returned from the
pawnbroker after the loaned money and interest
have been repaid.
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3. PAWNSHOPS
There are also three types of people who usually
transact at pawnshops, including the following:
7. CREDIT UNIONS
These are mutual institutions whose membership
have some common bond, such as employment in
lending institutions organized around some
common bond of membership, typically a common
employer.
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7. CREDIT UNIONS
They accept deposits, on which they pay interest or
dividends only from their membership and small
loans only to their members, usually for the
purpose of buying consumer-durable goods.
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8. INSURANCE COMPANIES
Thee companies are both mutual and stockholder-
owned.
They receive funds from policy holders and place
the funds in loans, both individually to home buyers
and other small borrowers and also through
security purchases in the organized money and
capital markets.
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8. INSURANCE COMPANIES
Service offered to the public is financial protection
against life’s various misfortunes.
To build up huge amounts of funds, they have to
place part of their assets in investments.
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9. PENSION FUNDS
The procedure for pension funds is the reverse of
that for insurance companies.
The person who lives the longest beyond
retirement receives the highest return in the
investment, through the periodic pension checks he
receives.
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9. PENSION FUNDS
Most corporation of any size offer their employees
a retirement plan as a benefit of employment.
The financial service offered the public is, of course,
the accumulation the investment of employer an
employee contributions of these funds.
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9. PENSION FUNDS
Pension funds can b e insured or non-insured.
Insured pension funds are managed by insurance
companies, and the investment of these funds is
frequently subject to the same governmental
restrictions like insurance contracts.
Non-insured funds have wider range in the types of
assets they may acquire.
SOURCES OF CREDIT
12. BANKS
These are commercial banks, savings banks, rural,
development and investment banks.
They approve loans based on collateral presented.
Collaterals are title for real property or securities.
In the absence of available pledge, a comaker is
required, serving as guarantor for the loans.
SOURCES OF CREDIT
12. BANKS
They are major sources of credit particularly for
businessmen and for the development of certain
industries.
Commercial banks
These institutions also accept drafts and issues
letters of credit, by discounting and negotiating
promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and
other evidences of debts; by receiving deposits by
buying and selling foreign exchange and gold and
silver bullion, and by lending money against
personal security or against securities consisting of
personal property or mortgages on improved real
estate and the insured improvements thereon.
Lending Act