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CITIBANK Personal Loan from 3.9% Upto $60k for 3 Years

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Hi all,

I'm sure this is not for everyone but found interesting one.
Personal loan rate that rewards you for a great VedaScore band – from as low as 3.9% p.a. for 3 years.

So this is how it works:
If you're on Excellent rating: 3.9%
Good rating: 4.9%

  • Access cash or transfer a balance of up to 80% of your credit limit at the promotional rate
  • $129 establishment fee
  • No monthly or annual fees
  • No early payout fees, if you want to accelerate payments
  • A standard variable rate of 19.49% p.a. applies to balances outside of the promotional offer

Fine Prints:
Important Information.
Fees and charges apply. Terms and conditions apply and are available upon request. Credit criteria apply. Existing Ready Credit, Personal Credit and Business Credit customers are not eligible to apply for this introductory offer.
Based on your Veda Risk Band, you will be provisionally offered a promotional interest rate. Access to this promotional rate is subject to Citibank's assessment of your application according to its standard credit criteria. The promotional interest rate from Citibank applies to balances transferred with this offer at point of application and cheques-to-self with this offer within 90 days of account opening. Payments are applied to BT amounts before cash advances and retail purchases, and if your account has more than one BT, the BT at the lowest interest rate will be repaid first.
A credit line of between $5,000 and $60,000 will be assigned based on our credit criteria and your credit rating. You can borrow funds from Citibank at the promotional interest rate by a BPAY balance transfer, or by a cheque. If you choose to receive funds using a cheque, this will be treated as a balance transfer (BT) for the purposes of your terms and conditions and statements. You can borrow up to 80% of your credit limit. Minimum income required is $35,000 a year.
The Establishment Fee will be debited to your Citibank Account on the date we issue you a statement of Account for the Statement Period in which you first use or activate your Account.
Other service fees and charges including late payment fee and dishonor fee may apply.
At the end of the promotional period, the interest rate will revert to the Citibank Ready Credit standard Annual Percentage Rate, currently 19.49% p.a. Interest rates are variable and subject to change.

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    • Before refinancing my home loan from CBA to UBank I read Product Review posts about UBank. Most say the bank is abysmal and the refinancing process was terrible. Yet, my refinance was virtually hassle free and all done within 20 working days. Couldn't be happier. Take away message: people who got a raw deal are far more likely to complain than happy customers are to write positive feedback.

      A friend applied for a 3 year 4.9% loan from Citibank and reported that despite his spotty credit record he was approved no problems.

    • From personal experience, Citibank is great as long as nothing goes wrong or god forbid, you have to call them for any reason. I have been a customer for some years and I would estimate that 95% of my calls to them have left me swearing and vowing to cancel all my business with them. I have a whinge and laugh with my wife and I stick with it. The dilemma is that they often have good offers that are hard to pass up (e.g. Signature Visa card free for life), so the tightarse in me wins out over my desire for good customer service. I guess there's always a trade-off and with Citibank it's just that. Good deals vs crap service. So YMMV.

      That said, I find the top banks are generally crap. I would say the best bank I've ever dealt with is Macquarie. You speak to an Australian call centre and they always go out of their way to accommodate my requests. Outstanding. I have a share trading account with them and a cash management account. I've kept the CMA even though I don't really need it, just because they're so bloody good to deal with. I don't work for them nor have any affiliation with them. Credit (pardon the pun) where credit is due.

  • I applied for the 2.9% some months ago. Be careful how you transfer the money to your desired account. My first effort fortunately didn't work. When I rang the lady she said if it had gone through I would have had to pay the 19% interest. I got a cheque to self sent in the mail and all good.

  • Hi All,
    I have a personal loan with CBA at 14%.
    Should I switch.
    When applying it says-
    While Veda couldn't generate a VedaScore band for you today, you can still apply for Citibank's flexible personal loan at a rate of just:

    and have offered 5.9%

    If you can please advice.

    Cheers

  • Hmmm… so if Excellent is 3.9%, and Good is 4.9%, is 'Very Good' 4.4%?

    • Nope. I got Very Good and was offered 4.9 bugger.

  • I'm "Average" and was offered 5.9%

    Hmmm

    Never missed a credit payment… But have milked a lot of CC deals. Luckily I already have bought a house so don't really care too much about credit rating, apart from deals like this

  • How about use it for a once off payment off hecs loan. Get the 10% discount and pay off the bank loan within 3 years.

    The interest of 3.9% is just as good as the hecs CPI increase yet u get the 10% bulk discount

    • -1

      That 3.9% is PER YEAR bud… not the entire interest over the 3 years.

      10% discount on the bulk payment is attractive, but nearly half of that will get chewed up in the first year of interest alone. Factor in year 2 and 3 (still at 3.9% but with a lower balance), and I reckon your 10% discount will be almost gone by the end of the 3 years unfortunately.

      • -1

        CPI % increase in hecs debt is as much or more than 3.9% p.a bud.

        • ???

          Umm… current CPI is about 2% to 2.5%pa mate.
          Even when the economy is booming, anything above 3% is probably a little concerning to most economists.

          edited: here you go- http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/6401.0

          2.3% over last year.

          Bud :).

        • -1

          Wow what a friendly exchange.

        • -1

          @UFO:

          So 1.4% interest differential over 3 years on a decreasing principal amount. I'll take that anyday Lol

          Big saving taking the bulk discount and paying it off by bulk payments and paying 3.9% interest, rather than no discount and a 2.3% CPI increase, bud.

  • Hi, I am pretty bad at dealing with my finance, so I would like your kind advise on my situation.

    Currently I have
    Personal Loan: 17,500 $ with interest rate p.a: 14.69 % (each month paying repayments: 500$)
    Credit Card :5100 $ with interest rate p.a: 13.49 % (each month paying repayments: 130 $)
    Currently the credit card interest is on 0% for the next 4 months and I am pretty sure after that the monthly repayments for the credit card will go up.

    My amature calculation gives me a hope that If I take this citibank personal loan to pay off both my personal loan and the credit card then I will be benefited ???
    Lets say If i take a personal loan amount of 23600 $ from citibank and plan to pay off the whole loan before the end of the promotional 3 years , my monthly repayments would be around 700$( as 4.9 % rate)?

    Would I be saving some money?
    I would greatly appreciate if some one can explain it to me very simply ( as I am pretty noob at all these financial calculation)

    • The personal loan, if a fixed payment loan over a set term, will already have interest charged over the whole term factored into those payments.

      Refinancing such a loan is effectively paying more interest on the same money.

      Anything that doesnt have a fixed term and you simply pay interest on from a month to month basis (like a credit or store card) is perfect for refinacing… because you can realistically save on a lot of future interest charges.

      What type of personal loan is it? Starting amount, amount owing? etc
      If its a set term with set payments, dont refinance. You've already in effect prepaid the interest on it.

      The only real benefit of refinancing all your debts into one facility is that its easier to manage because you've got one bill every month.

      With the credit card (provided your credit history is good), check out ANZ.
      They have 16 months interest free on balance transfers atm.
      Transfer your credit card debt to them and cancel the current card.
      Instead of stuffing about every 4 months looking for a better deal, you'll have almost 1.5 years to save your pennies and knock off the principal debt on the card.

  • Got "Very good" which only gives 4.9% instead of 3.9%.

    Not sure how they work that out haven't paid interest of a credit card in years and my PPOR is sitting under 50% LVR after 1 year of establishing the loan.

    Guess I'm not doing enough to get 3.9%.

  • Hey guys… need a little help on how to proceed.

    Went through the app, asking for $30k (our combined income is $170k, no late payment ever - although the spanner may be I've been with my new job only 7 weeks). When it said at the end whether I want to balance transfer, I didn't put anything in… is that going to be a problem; I plan on using the $24k (80% of $30k) to pay down a $12k personal loan (11.00%) + 3 interest free cards (sitting in my wife's name, which are coming up for their annual fees in early Feb).

    Do i simply request a cheque to self once its all been processed, or should I have specified the amounts in the balance transfer section (how do you put a loan in)?

    *They called me while writing this, to confirm my old address as I'm an existing customer… hopefully that'll mean smooth sailing as i used to get my pay deposited with them.

    • weird… got approval email about 1h after submitting original application… haven't even sent them through my payslips: is that normal?!

  • Did anyone's length of offer get changed from 3 years to 2 years whether it be 3.9% or 4.9%?

  • All these free credit score checking crap does come with strings attached.

    I've just got off the phone with this Veda rep saying I've recently used the Citibank thing to get my score. Here's an offer - 25% off VedaAccess. The phone number is 02 8199 5685 just in case you want to block it.

    The operator keep saying I can improve my score by having access to my score. I mean like how? All I can see what factors are influencing it but I don't have direct control over any of them other than paying my bills on time or stop churning cards like a nutcase. She went silent and go back to her script saying having access to my score will help me improve it.

    3rd freakin Citibank related call in the week. First it was income protection then life insurance and now Veda.

  • Does anyone know at what point the $129 establishment fee is paid?

  • I got 'Unable to generate a report…' I have a mortgage, a credit card, phone, utilities….. etc? No credit report?

    • Used my old address… moved recently.

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