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| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by EthicalLender: 8:24pm On May 11 |
shortgun:That is the reason why they don't give you loan, running a background check shows that you are a credit risk |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by FutureFocus: 8:26pm On May 11 |
I was developing a small business in 2012, having spent 80% on the structure, I ran out of fund and then approached my bank who said NO WAY for 20% I needed to compete the project |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by bigpicture001: 8:27pm On May 11 |
This I go to start and grow ur business through bank loans 1. Have a clear idea of what very profitable biz u want to do 2. Go out ND do feasibility study on the business in relation with ur preferred location 3. Start small 4. Use friends and family funds to start 5. Keep an maintain a business book 6. Dnt just keep books use it in recording everything do...it very important! 7. Learn business management. 8. When u see ur capacity is too small from.experince inside the business, then u know u need expansion. 9. Only for expansion purposes will u seek a loan.. 10. Start with small microfinance Lina's with very flexible payback plans.. 11. Grow the loanable amount with them over Tim n be grounded on loan and payback etc.. 12. Then leave them ND graduate to main banks, cuz these ones give lowest interest.. From.there, the sky is ur limit |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by EthicalLender: 8:33pm On May 11 |
blesdman:That's because Nigerians have a habit of not repaying loans |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by lawani(m): 8:40pm On May 11 |
I have had at least a bank manager approach me by himself because of my turnover and the visible structure of my business and a few others introduced to me because of the same reason. Getting funding is never difficult for any real entrepreneur that is doing things the right way |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by Britishcoins(m): 8:45pm On May 11 |
instead of looking for loan why not build good customer relationship with ur suppliers... that was how I made it, I was faithful to them, they always give me goods on credit and I pay immediately I sell them |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by lawani(m): 8:49pm On May 11 |
Britishcoins:Yes credit line is more important than loans. I used to take credit worth millions including from people that had never been to my place. They were giving me credit over the phone without having met me. |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by Lekan239(m): 8:54pm On May 11 |
koladata:yea there are, but what are the percentage. business out of 1000... likewise some bank branches turnover billions daily, while some branches cant even turn over 5m naira daily. |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by jaeyking(m): 9:41pm On May 11 |
Stephen0mozzy:From the fintech loans We can see that some Nigerians are not credit worthy |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by TheStoriesOfMan: 9:45pm On May 11 |
koladata:You mean money laundering? |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by CodeTemplar: 9:49pm On May 11 |
DeltaBachelor:kpokpo garri with no water in sight. No longer unilag abi? |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by jaeyking(m): 9:50pm On May 11 |
Most of you talking Have little or no idea When you collect the loan Do you think it's the bank you are suffering, the innocent account officer who processes the loan facility for you gets suspended without pay Just because a foolish human wants to scam a financial institution We have seen a lot of y'all collect fintech loans and boldly come out to say they are disturbing you Banks give out loans but only to who they seem credit worthy Otedola recently wrote off more than 500b for bad loans given to individuals/companies Does that speak well for a country A loan that is not collaterized is a NO |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by SeaTrade(m): 4:27am On May 12 |
Never applied, They came to me with their expensive credit which I don't take. After much coercion ,I got overdraft of N20m, No collateral,nothing. They just debit from inflows and I was not very happy when they take initial OD charge of 400k. Them no tell me that one. |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by koladata(m): 5:08am On May 12 |
Dey there dey think say every one is poor in Nigeria TheStoriesOfMan: |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by azpekuliar: 5:43am On May 12 |
Curious345:They do |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by donmik: 9:18am On May 12 |
Please, what conditions warrants one to be qualified for loan from GTBANK and Fidelity? More seriously, I don't understand how Fidelity operates even after visiting their desk, their response was like they are not informed about that. Thanks |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by shortgun(m): 9:31am On May 12 |
nedekid:Your comment is exactly the kind of mindset that is killing entrepreneurship and business growth in Nigeria. Imagine generalizing over 200 million people and boldly saying “it is not in our nature as Nigerians to pay loans.” Where did you get this statistics from? What you said is nothing but bitterness mixed with stereotypes. The truth is simple, Nigerian banks are extremely reluctant to support small and medium businesses unless you already have money, connections or heavy collateral. Many account officers disappear immediately loan is mentioned because they already assume the average person is not worth the stress. That was the exact point I was making. Banks love rich customers, not struggling entrepreneurs. They still give the loans to fat bank account holders who still default. The moment my account balance grew elsewhere and my business starts succeeding without them, suddenly they began calling, checking up on me and offering products. Is that not an irony? What many bankers in Nigeria do is to approve loans only to themselves or cronies. Yes some people misuse loans. That happens everywhere in the world, not only in Nigeria. There are Americans, Europeans, Asians and Africans who default on loans daily. But reducing an entire country to onigbese behavior is dishonest and intellectually lazy. The funny thing is that these same banks themselves write off billions in insider loans owed by politically connected people but become ruthlessly aggressive when chasing ordinary Nigerians over small business loans. So spare us the moral lecture. Today many Nigerian businesses have developed alternative financing ecosystems outside the traditional banking sector. Banks are supposed to be central to capital allocation and business expansion. However, when financial institutions become structurally detached from productive sectors of the economy, businesses naturally adapt by building parallel survival mechanisms outside the formal credit system. Nigerian banks will eventually face institutional decline within the business lifecycle framework. Like firms in the maturity-to decline phase, institutions that fail to innovate, efficiently allocate capital or maintain relevance to emerging economic actors will die off naturally. I can tell you for free that the banking sector has become irrelevant in this economy where businesses increasingly have learned to survive and scale without them |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by lawani(m): 10:21am On May 12 |
Why credit is not circulating is because so many properties have no title deeds and can therefore not be used to collateralize loans. My grandfather built three houses and my father built one. Two of my grandfather's house are decrepit now and in need of repairs while the third one was taken over by a bank. The ones in need of repair are capital that is not in circulation. Nobody is using them for anything. Not even rentals meanwhile they could have been used to collateralize huge loans. The same is true across Nigeria. Banks can not mobilize people with loans because the assets that can cover those loans are not liquid. In the high income world, most if not all real estate are mobilized for loans |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by nkemjacob2(m): 11:20am On May 12 |
Micro financial bank done frustrate me tire |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by PARADIZEPRIEST: 1:30pm On May 12 |
BANKS IN THIS CLIME ARE CROOKS ![]() They give you loan only when you have sellable property that is three time more than the value of the loan you need go get savihgs or family friends loan if yiuvreally need it. |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by PARADIZEPRIEST: 1:31pm On May 12 |
PARADIZEPRIEST:Some naija debtors are evil when it comes to repaying loans |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by Thomthom(m): 1:40pm On May 12 |
nedekid:pls if they are talking about loan, let's talk about our Nigeria bank loan. Not Fairmoney and easy Moni kind of loan. If banks gives loans, who for they patronise loan app |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by SavageResponse(m): 2:13pm On May 12 |
shortgun:Nigeriana don't like to hear the truth, that is one of our main problems! Out of our population of 200 million people I can assure you that only about 20% or less will take a loan from a friend or bank and willingly pay it back when it becomes due. Nigeria is a country of onigbese people, joy can deny it all you want it does not change the facts. Someone will come to you looking all sober to ask for a loan with a promise to pay back on a certain date. When the time for payment comes he starts avoiding you or he pretends to have forgotten, meanwhile he has the money to pay back but he won't pay back cos he thinks your money is his entitlement. You will practically beg to get your money back, that is if you are ever able to recover it. You people are terrible!!! |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by TheStoriesOfMan: 2:41pm On May 12 |
koladata:You wey rich, why you never buy nairaland? Abi your cl never pay? Try make your name dey Forbes, make you no dey browse Nairaland dey support APC. Mtcheww |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by koladata(m): 2:59pm On May 12 |
I'm not into yahoo, never done it before and would never do it in future... I'm a senior software engineer way before the tech boom.... also I don't support apc ... and nobody is fighting with you, the point i was trying to make is there are rich people in Nigeria and they are not into yahoo. You shouldn't always turn every simple conversation to fight. You are not the smartest , I am not the smartest also... but learn to listen to other people's view especially when they claim to know somethings you don't know. It could be true. TheStoriesOfMan: |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by nedekid: 5:06pm On May 12*. Modified: 5:46pm On May 12 |
Thomthom:Truth of the matter is that those apps are the only ones that will give you loan, no bank will, in that case wount it be fair to talk of them? Bros, one day like that I no get liquid cash, I needed small owo, I enter gt bank app, now way, I enter fcmb for where, I called Zenith bank, that one my account officer told me hoha say their bank no de give anybody soft loan say them no get time to chase people up and down, lol. Now that is me weh de run my accounts well, e pain me wella. Back in the day ie the early 2000s, drove out with my guy a fresh lawyer, we stopped by his cousins house somewhere in ikoyi or VI, apparently she had a big discount supermarket, she wanted to do abroad style and gave store credit cards to so called elite customers. Oga those so called big Nigerians came there and wrecked the shop with igbese. Lol. See list of who is who in Lagos, from that pastor that speaks like an Americano to top celebrities and politicians. So she offered him 10% of any money he recovered. Early 2000s also eco bank introduced the first credit card in naija, all you do is bring your bank statement from any bank, they will then evaluate you and decline or offer you credit. So they gave me card of 120k or $1000. Bros after 6months or so eco bank almost wrecked. So called big men took the money and never paid. Me that had integrity was servicing my card, at a time my money was paid in full eco bank declined further credit. They said Nigerians wanted to wound them, lol Do you know must banks in the world give loans the most in the form of credit cards? Why are Nigerian banks not doing so, instead it is debit card they give, the reason is that nigerians wount pay!!. The only people trying now with loans is opay, but of course the interest na die. Funny thing is that people complain of loan app and the cost, but forget it is like that all over the world, the more risk a loan environment is the higher the interest rates. Someone that came for his father burial told be he borrowed £4k and that he was paying 150 monthly as interest on the loan! Ie 7.8m to be seeing 277k just as monthly interest? Haba. |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by KingRabota: 9:29pm On May 12 |
And in most of those countries The SMEs didnt treat the loans as free national cake from our fadaland Right now im thinking of the rice farmers , when burahi closed tje borders , so they could improve capacity and quality only for them to turn round hoard the rice and hike the price , with nearly minimal improvement in quality Sheuns: |
| Re: Has A Bank Ever Rejected Your Small Business Loan Application? by TheStoriesOfMan: 9:36pm On May 12 |
koladata:You say make I dey play na. I come dey play you dey write epistle. Na wa oooo. Is that the "thanks" I get? C'mon! |
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go get savihgs or family friends loan if yiuvreally need it.