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Barclays offer reduced personal loan rates

October 9, 2007 by admin  
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Barclays bank has announced it will cut its personal loan rates when many lenders are having trouble maintaining current rates, according to Gary Druggan, managing director at Barclays Personal Loans.

Cutting rates on its entire book, the lending giant steps up competition in a move that takes advantage of its “strong balance sheet”.

The bank reports that Barclayloan Plus loan rates are going down by 0.6 per cent to 6.8 per cent APR typical.

Mr Duggan said: “At Barclays we are able to take advantage of a very strong balance sheet and finance loans from our very strong deposit taking business, enabling us to cut rates for this campaign.”

Personal loan rates have been just one of many things to be affected by recent credit crunch.

With many lenders forced to push rates up by as much as four per cent, borrowers would have trouble finding a rate below 6.9 per cent.

Mr Druggan added that anyone finding better loan rates than offered with Barclays will be refunded the difference and will also receive a bonus of one pound every month.

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