Loan is a form of credit activity in which banks or other financial institutions lend monetary funds at a certain interest rate and must return them. Loans in a broad sense refer to loans, discounts, overdrafts and other borrowing funds.

Banks put concentrated money and monetary funds out through loans, which can meet the needs of social expansion and reproduction and promote economic development. At the same time, banks can also obtain loan interest income and increase their own accumulation.

Loan repayment method

(1) Equal principal and interest repayment method: equal repayment every month, the sum of loan principal and interest. Most banks have adopted this method for housing provident fund loans and commercial personal housing loans. So the monthly repayment amount is the same.

(2) average capital repayment method: that is, the borrower distributes the loan amount to each period (month) evenly throughout the repayment period and pays off the loan interest from the previous trading day to the repayment date. In this way, the monthly repayment amount decreases month by month.

(3) Paying interest and principal on a monthly basis: that is, the borrower repays the loan principal in one lump sum on the loan maturity date (applicable to loans with a term of less than one year (including one year)), and the loan bears interest on a daily basis, and the interest is repaid on a monthly basis.