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WHAT IS UNSECURED CREDIT?

Canada makes the credit history or the credit reports very important for a citizen for any financial procedure that needs to be processed. One of the procedures includes obtaining a credit card. A credit card may be of two major types – unsecured and secured credit cards. Canadian citizens bear scores for their credits recorded and the scores range from 300 to 850. Talking precisely, credit cards are usually tougher to be granted than even the mortgages simply because it comes under the category of unsecured credit. A Canadian can still apply for a credit card if his credit scores are below 700, but the interest rates that are charged vary inversely with the credit score of the person.

There are banks and financial institutions that work exclusively to help those Canadians who have below average or bad credit scores and who are almost ineligible to apply for a credit card or even a mortgage. These agencies or institutions will issue the unsecured credit cards after thoroughly analyzing the credit history of the person and declare the interest rate that needs to be necessarily paid if the cards will be issued to such people. Coming to the exact definition of this type of credit, it can be said that it is the credit that is granted or extended to a person with the condition that the debtor has got to be repaying it without the backing of any collateral security.

This card is the one that is not provided any kind of security in the form of an amount of money or a strong deposit in the bank that issues the credit card to the Canadian. There is something called the unsecured credit line that helps greatly for the business of a person gets financed. This credit line provides steady flow of cash that will be needed by the business to keep it going at a normal pace if not at a high profit pace. These credit lines are however tough to get sanctioned to business in Canada because there has to constant high and positive credits in the credit history or the credit report recorded for the particular business.

Getting such type of cards can be said to be the toughest in Canada when compared to other countries like the United States. Especially when the person has not been a citizen of Canada and he or she has immigrated to Canada, it can be said that the sanction of such cards is almost possible. There are no banks or financial institutions in Canada that generally prefer to offer such delicate credit to such immigrants. This may be mainly because an immigrant to Canada will not have the credit history with respect to Canada though he or she will of course have one that would be the credit report framed with respect to the country the person has immigrated from. As a result of this the credit reports cannot be verified enough to grant an unsecured credit card without enough assurance or without determining the eligibility of the person who has applied for the credit card. However it is comparatively easier to obtain a secured credit card in Canada.



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