Different Types of Loans and Advance facilities in Banking Sector.




APG (Advance payment Guarantee)
A guarantee issued by bank, on behalf of a seller to a buyer, in relation to any advance payment that is made by the buyer to seller to allow the contract to commence. If the contract is not completed the buyer can claim reimbursement of the advance payment under the guarantee

APG issued by banks on behalf of their clients in the context of large construction project or export sales contract. The bank undertakes to repay up-front payments that the client has received from the contract awarding authority in the event that the client does not fulfill the terms of its contract.

PG (Performance Bank Guarantee)
The performance bank guarantee is an irrevocable undertaking of bank to pay a certain amount to the beneficiary of the guarantee within the specified limits of the guarantee if the bank’s customer who has requested the bank to issue such guarantee – the principal- has failed to fulfill his obligations towards the beneficiary.
  
BG (Bank Guarantee)
 A guarantee from a lending institution ensuring that the liabilities n of a debtors will be met. In other words, if the debtors fail to settle a debts, the bank will cover it.

Performance Bond
A performance bond is a surety bond that is issued by a bank or insurance company to guarantee satisfactory completion project by a person.

Bid Bond:  A written guarantee from a third party guarantor (usually a bank or an insurance company) submitted to a principal (Client/ customer/) by a contractor (bidder) with a bid. It is ensure that on acceptance of bid by the customer the contractor will proceed with the contract and will replace the bid bond with a performance bond. Otherwise, the guarantor will pay the customer the difference between the contractor’s bid and the next highest bidder. This difference is called liquidated damages pf the bid bond.

Continuous Loan: The loan accounts in which transactions may be made within certain limit and have an expiry date for full adjustment will be treated as Continuous Loan. Examples are: Cash Credit, Overdraft, etc.

Demand Loan: The loans that become repayable on demand by the bank will be treated as Demand Loan. If any contingent or any other liabilities are turned to forced loan (i.e. without any prior approval as regular loan) those too will be treated as Demand Loan. Such as: Forced Loan against Imported Merchandise, Payment against Document, Foreign Bill Purchased, and Inland Bill Purchased, etc.

Fixed Term Loan: The loans, which are repayable within a specific time period under a specific repayment schedule, will be treated as Fixed Term Loan.

Post Import Finance
A loan facility given by the bank to importer (customer) to settle bills of exchange that have matured and the importer has not mobilized adequate resources to settle the same. Banks are allowing its client an additional credit period, which is un-disclosed to the seller. The facility is usually granted for bill drawn under an importer usance letter of credit.

Purpose
Extended credit period
Lower lending rate (LIBOR plus a small margin)
Eases cash flow problem
Sales proceeds realized before making payment.


Banks extended this facility in following forms:
Payment against documents (PAD)
Letter of Trust Receipts (LTR)
Loan against imported merchandise (LIM)
Subsequent Time loan
Subsequent Leas finance
Subsequent  Term Loan

Pre- Shipment Finance
Pre- shipment finance is working capital finance that is provided by bank to an exporter, with – recourse basis against either a confirmed export order or a Letter of Credit. This facility is allow to the exporter to meet the working capital requirement to purchase goods or raw material subsequent manufacturing of final goods. Warehousing, or to arrange for the transportation of goods. Banks extended this facility in following forms:


i)     Back to Back L/c (BTB L/c)
ii)   Advance bill purchase (ABP)
i)     Export Cash Credit ECC
ii)   Packing Cash Credit (PC)

Post Shipment Finance
Post shipment finance is kind of loan provided by the bank to exporter or seller against a shipment that has already been made. This type of finance is granted from the date of extending the credit after shipment of goods to the realization date of the export proceeds. It is provided against evidence of shipment of goods or supplies made to the importer or seller or any other designated agency.  Banks extended this facility in form of Foreign documentary bill purchase (FDBP)

 Forced Loan:
The loan which creates without any prior approval as regular loan in case of failure of the borrower to meet the obligation there off as it was committed by the bank for payment of any legal claim by the beneficiary against any contingent or any other liabilities.

The loan which creates by the bank as an obligatory without any prior approval as regular loan against any contingent or any other liabilities which is become due for repayment but the borrower fails to meet the obligation there off.

Normally banks have to create forced loan in the following case:

 Loan against Imported Merchandise
 Payment against Document
 Foreign Bill Purchased,
 Inland Bill Purchased,

Large Loan:

The large loan is an exposure of a particular borrower which is 10% or above of paid up capital. Presently bank can extend credit facility as  large loan as follows:

                                                            % of Classified Loan                                                        Maximum limit
                                                               of total Exposure                                                            for large loan
                                                                Up to 5%                                                            56% of total loan portfolio
                                                                Above 5% to 10%                                               52% of total loan portfolio
                                                                Above 10% to 15%                                             48% of total loan portfolio
                                                                Above 15% to 20%                                             44% of total loan portfolio
                                                                Above 20%                                                         40% of total loan portfolio

Revolving Credit.
A line of credit that permits the borrower to withdraw funds or charge purchases up to a specified dollar amount. The outstanding balance may fluctuate at various times from zero up to the maximum amount. Also referred to as open-end credit.

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