Introduction
Now a days, online banking has been growing rapidly. There are different ways by which we can do a number of transactions from anywhere. You have to just carry a small card and you are able to do what you want to do. There are mainly two types of card1) Secured card
2) Unsecured card
These cards are issued by banks to their clients to provide services as per their requirement.
Secured card:
- A secured card has a support of security deposit as a backbone.
- It means a card is backboned by a collateral security.
- Secured card’s credit limit is the balance available in the bank account as a security.
- In short credit limit of card rely on deposit and it is expand by increasing the balance in deposit.
- Secured card is less risky for the bank. It is easy for customer to carry a secured credit card than paper money.
Unsecured Cards
- An unsecured card is a card which is not backboned against a collateral security.
- The limit of unsecured card is higher as compare to the secured card.
- In unsecured card there is high rate of interest charged because of high level of risk involved.
- Banks issue unsecured card to those who has a good credit history.
- Unsecured card sometime becomes issue when a customer is not able to pay debts.
- Generally unsecured card is issued to the highly credible customers.
- And in case of default, banks have to take legal action against defaulter to collect debts.
Difference between secured and unsecured card
| Basis | Secured card | Unsecured card |
|---|---|---|
| Protection | It is protected against collateral security. | It is not protected against collateral security. |
| Interest rate | Low rate of interest. | High rate of interest. |
| Risk level | Lower level of risk. | Higher level of risk. |
| Credit limit | Low credit limit | Higher credit limit |
| Case of defaulter | Bank Covers it from the balance available in bank account of the client. | Banks have to take legal action against defaulter to recover the unpaid debt. |
