Tag: Personal loan
Lindner rejects allegations in connection with personal loans
Christian Lindner The finance minister rejects the allegations. (Photo: IMAGO/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has rejected allegations in connection with a loan for his private home…
Lindner rejects allegations in connection with personal loans
Christian Lindner The finance minister rejects the allegations. (Photo: IMAGO/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has rejected allegations in connection with a loan for his private home…
Overdraft interest will increase faster than ever at the end of 2022
overdraft interest The overdraft facility is the most expensive bank loan. In the course of the turnaround in interest rates, many financial institutions are making the overdraft facility more expensive…
Creditreform expects more defaults in private households in 2023
Empty piggy banks Unprecedentedly high energy costs are a burden for private households, some of which have to resort to savings. (Photo: IMAGO/IlluPics) Berlin The number of consumer bankruptcies in…
EU agrees on stronger consumer protection
online loans “What looks like a loan should be treated like a loan.” (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Brussels In the future, consumers in the EU will be better protected when taking…
Why a home savings contract can pay off again
Construction of a single family house If you cleverly integrate a home savings contract into your real estate financing, you can save money. (Photo: dpa) Munich While there is less…
Comeback of a classic – Why building savings can be worthwhile again
Construction of a single family house If you cleverly integrate a home savings contract into your real estate financing, you can save money. (Photo: dpa) Munich While there is less…
Cooperative banks are considering increasing their stake in Schufa
Schufa Schufa was founded in 1927 as a “protection group for general loan security”. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The German cooperative banks are considering taking over further shares in the credit…
Cooperative banks are considering increasing their stake in Schufa
Schufa Schufa was founded in 1927 as a “protection group for general loan security”. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The German cooperative banks are considering taking over further shares in the credit…
Credit agency wants to collect sustainability data in the future
Frankfurt The Schufa, best known for credit assessments of consumers, wants to set up a database for environmental risks of companies. Specifically, it is about a platform for EU taxonomy…
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank want to sell shares.
Schufa Schufa was founded in 1927 as a “protection group for general loan security”. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Next chapter in the struggle for the credit agency Schufa: Deutsche Bank and…
This is how you can improve your Schufa score
Berlin It is a step that is overdue: after a long period of pressure, Schufa wants to become more transparent and presented its score simulator on Thursday. With the help…
This is how you can improve your Schufa score
Berlin It is a step that is overdue: after a long period of pressure, Schufa wants to become more transparent and presented its score simulator on Thursday. With the help…
Schufa registers an increase in negative reports
Frankfurt After a number of warnings from politics and the financial sector, there is now initial data that consumers are increasingly having payment difficulties. At the credit agency Schufa, the…
EU plans stricter rules for online shopping on credit
Frankfurt, Brussels The EU is striving for stricter rules for mini-loans and buying in installments when shopping online, in technical jargon “buy now, pay later” (BNPL). The consumer credit directive,…
This is how your behavior affects your Schufa score
Dusseldorf If you want to take out a loan or rent an apartment, you can’t get past it: the Schufa. The protection association for general loan security provides its contractual…
CEO Tanja Birkholz warns of increasing over-indebtedness
Frankfurt In view of rising energy prices and high inflation, there are growing concerns about over-indebtedness among Germans – also on the part of the financial sector. “What we are…
High interest rates cause demand to collapse
The state-owned KfW, which grants almost three quarters of the loans, has just raised the interest rate to four percent from 2023 – further interest rate increases are foreseeable. The…
This is how consumers can find cheap online installment loans
Euro notes savings book Euro notes savings book *** Euro notes passbook euro notes savings FMH-Finanzberatung has compiled a ranking of the best online installment loans. Especially the German Skatbank…
Biden wants to partially cancel the debt of millions of college graduates
Joe Biden The US President announces debt relief. (Photo: IMAGO/UPI Photo) Washington In the USA, several million university graduates should no longer have to repay their debts to the state…