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Interest loans refer to loans offered by banks whose main characteristic is the interest rate and how it will behave during the period of time that has chosen to make the repayment.

To begin, we say that the interest is the profit margin that the institution issuing the loan is on the client that requests it. Are interests of charges, fees and additional percentages to the original value of the loan which the borrower agrees to pay the lender for payment of the debt? There are basically three kinds of interest rates: fixed, variable or mixed.

In a fixed rate loan, the interest rate does not vary throughout the term of repayment. This means that all fees are equal, from first to last, no matter how many years you have chosen to repay the loan. It is necessary to consider that banks take a value of reference type, which in Europe is known as Euribor, while the United States is established by the Federal Reserve (FED). While fixed-rate loans it does not change, usually located well above the reference rate to dampen the variations that can undergo the same over the years.

However, if the loan has a variable interest, also offers an interest that will be a certain percentage above the baseline (usually less than one percentage point), which is fixed. The difference is that, as the reference rate for interbank transactions varies, so will the interests of our loan. Moreover, many times in the loan agreement set certain time periods during which these percentages are immovable, which may be a couple of years. Subsequently, the institution made annually reviews interest rates. Read the rest of this entry »