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Means to borrow with us

Our guide on what to consider

There are lots of reasons you might need to infringe – and lots of means to practice information technology. Take a look at the options available and run across if they could help yous.

Choices, choices…

In that location are several ways to borrow money and which you lot cull ultimately depends on what yous want to achieve. This guide will aid you make the right choice. To get started, retrieve

  • What practise I need the money for?
  • How much do I need to borrow?
  • When do I need it?
  • How will I pay it back?

Hither's an overview of the principal options you could consider.

All lending is field of study to application, financial circumstances and borrowing history. Terms and conditions employ to all. The amount nosotros'll lend you could exist dissimilar to the amounts nosotros've shown below. You lot must be xviii or over and resident in the Britain to apply for lending with us.

Borrowing options

Loans

Credit cards

Additional mortgage borrowing

Arranged overdrafts

Suitable for

Large, i-off purchases, like ownership a car, consolidating debts, or habitation improvements.

Y'all could use a credit card for pretty much anything, including

  • Remainder transfers
  • Money transfers
  • Everyday spending
  • Big purchases like holidays and home improvements

Some cards also have specific features, like

  • Cashback
  • Earning rewards
  • Large costs, like home improvements, or debt consolidation
  • You might exist able to borrow over a longer menstruation than with a personal loan
  • Help with short-term borrowing needs for things like unexpected bills or everyday expenses.
  • See general information about overdrafts

Restrictions

You won't be able to use a loan for business organization purposes, investments (including ownership stocks and shares), timeshares, purchasing property, gambling-related expenses, repaying county courtroom judgments, or a purchase made by combining this loan with others.

You won't be able to use it for business purposes, gaming-related transactions, like gambling, betting and buying lottery tickets, any illegal purposes, or certain types of transactions which we'll tell yous nigh from time to time.

Yous won't be able to utilize it for business purposes, investments (including buying stocks and shares), timeshares, gambling or repaying gambling debt, repaying county courtroom judgements, self-build properties, or to make your monthly mortgage repayments.

There are more restrictions on buy-to-allow and commercial mortgages – speak with a mortgage adviser if you accept anything other than a residential mortgage.

You tin can't utilise an arranged overdraft for investments, like stocks and shares.

Amount you could borrow

£ane,000 to £l,000

  • £fifty to £fifteen,000 (we'll give you a limit that'southward affordable to you lot)
  • If you lot apply for a Barclaycard, nosotros'll show you more than information about how to become the most from your offer. The approval of your application and the terms we may offer yous depend on your financial circumstances and borrowing history. The interest rates nosotros offer you may differ from those shown on examples
  • If you lot make repayments on fourth dimension, don't miss any payments and don't go over your credit limit, we may increase your limit after
  • £5,000 to £2 meg
  • Get upwardly to 85% of your dwelling's value, or 80% if yous're consolidating debts

£100 to £v,000, depending on the type of account you have.

Eligibility

  • If you take a electric current account with u.s., check if you lot're pre-selected to apply in the app or Online Cyberbanking
  • See how much you might be able to borrow and your personal interest charge per unit

Log in to Online Banking to see if you lot're eligible

Apply our eligibility checker to run into if you lot're likely to be accustomed before yous apply.

  • You'll need to have a mortgage with u.s.
  • You lot'll demand to apply for the borrowing and we'll assess your application based on your financial circumstances and borrowing history
  • If y'all accept a buy-to-let mortgage, you'll need to have it for a minimum of six months before you tin can apply (there's no minimum wait for residential mortgages)
  • You must be 21 or over to apply for any purchase-to-let-related lending
  • You'll need a current account with u.s.
  • Use our eligibility checker to see if you're likely to exist accepted earlier you utilise

If you already have this type of borrowing

If you already take a loan with united states of america and need to infringe more, you lot can use for a pinnacle-up or an additional loan.

Log in to your Barclays or Barclaycard app, or the Barclaycard website, to run across if you have any offers.

  • Y'all can borrow more, every bit long equally you lot run into the eligibility and affordability criteria
  • For purchase-to-let mortgages, there's a minimum wait of six months from the last fourth dimension you borrowed more than (there'south no minimum await for residential mortgages)

If y'all demand more funds, yous may be able to increase your arranged overdraft in the Barclays app, Online Banking (if yous're registered), over the phone or in a branch.

When you'll become information technology

Commonly equally shortly as we corroborate your application.

  • If y'all have a current account with us and nosotros can validate your income, you lot can get a Barclaycard every bit soon as we approve your awarding
  • Your card should arrive within 7 to 14 days

The application process is longer than for other types of borrowing, so it could take a calendar month or so.

Straight away if we approve your application.

Repayment

You'll need to repay your loan in fixed monthly instalments by Direct Debit over an agreed period.

You lot can pay in a diverseness of ways, the easiest being by Direct Debit.

  • Pay off the full residue every calendar month by the due engagement and yous won't get charged any interest on purchases (though interest is charged on cash withdrawals from the day you withdraw the money)
  • Pay less than the full corporeality and you'll accept interest added to the remaining balance the following month (though non during interest-gratuitous offer periods)
  • Pay the minimum amount, though information technology'll take longer to pay off and you'll pay more interest (except during an involvement-free offering menstruum)
  • It'll be added onto your monthly mortgage payment
  • You might be able to pay information technology back sooner than the rest of your mortgage – inquire us about paying over a different term
  • There'southward no set term, so information technology'southward a flexible way to borrow
  • Repay in your ain time, but you'll be charged interest whenever yous use it, then yous'll demand to consider this when thinking about how much you want to borrow

Things to consider

  • A loan application will show up on your credit report – check how likely you lot are to be accustomed earlier yous apply
  • If yous miss a payment, it'll impact your credit score, and we may accuse you a late or missed payment fee
  • If you want to pay off your loan early on, we'll accuse an early settlement fee
  • A credit card awarding volition show upwards on your credit report – check how likely you are to be accepted before you employ
  • If y'all miss a payment, it'll affect your credit score, and we may charge you a belatedly or missed payment fee
  • We have a variety of credit cards with different features and offers
  • Involvement rates vary and depend on your circumstances
  • 0% involvement-free periods or 0% balance transfer offers are proficient short-term options, but be conscientious if you oasis't repaid the rest when the offer menstruum runs out as you'll exist charged interest
  • Credit cards shouldn't be used to fund long-term borrowing, so keep an eye on your spending and only borrow what you can afford to pay back
  • Additional mortgage borrowing is secured confronting your home, so your home is at risk if you don't go on up repayments
  • While you might get a lower involvement rate than with a personal loan, it could end up costing you more if you repay over a longer period
  • Make sure you lot know how much we'll accuse you for using your arranged overdraft
  • Bundled overdrafts should just be seen as a brusk-term solution. If you demand to borrow for longer, or want a structured repayment plan, wait at the other options

How to apply

  • The Barclays app
  • Online Banking
  • Telephone Cyberbanking
  • In a branch (it'southward a good idea to volume an appointment)
  • Video call usa from your mobile device or Barclays app – find out how
  • The Barclays app
  • Online Banking
  • Telephone Banking
  • In a branch (it's a proficient idea to book an appointment)
  • In a branch – make an appointment with i of our mortgage advisers
  • Call usa on0800 197 1081 1
  • Through an independent financial adviser
  • The Barclays appii
  • Online Banking2
  • Telephone Banking
  • In a branch (it'south a skillful idea to book an engagement)

Learn more

Almost our loans

About our credit cards

Extra mortgage borrowing

Well-nigh our overdrafts

General information about overdrafts

An overdraft limit is a borrowing facility which allows you to infringe coin through your current account.

There are two types of overdraft – arranged and unarranged:

An arranged overdraft is a pre-agreed limit, which lets y'all spend more coin than y'all have in your current business relationship. It can be a safety net to cover brusk-term outgoings, similar an unexpected bill. It is not suitable for longer-term borrowing. We accuse you for every day of the month that you use your arranged overdraft where you get beyond any involvement free limit you may have.

An unarranged overdraft is when you spend more than money than you accept in your electric current business relationship and you have not agreed an arranged overdraft limit with u.s. in accelerate or y'all take exceeded an existing bundled borrowing facility.

You can only make payments from your account if you take enough coin in your account or through an bundled overdraft to comprehend them. Barclays will always attempt to return any transaction that could take your account into an unarranged overdraft position. Having plenty coin in your electric current account or having an bundled overdraft limit could help prevent payments such equally priority bills from beingness returned unpaid. On very rare occasions we may be unable to render a payment (e.m. due to an offline transaction made on a flight) and the account may enter an unarranged overdraft. No additional charges volition be applied in this state of affairs.

Information regarding the carry of your account may exist sent to credit reference agencies. As with any debt or borrowing, this may bear on your ability to get credit in the futurity.

Our Eligibility tool can show you the likelihood of getting an arranged overdraft and the overdraft calculator lets you encounter how much it could cost to use an overdraft. To use these tools and find out more nearly overdraft charges, delight visit barclays.co.uk/youroverdraft

You tin can reduce or remove an agreed limit by visiting a branch or past calling united states of america on 0345 734 5345*. Limits cannot exist reduced to a position below any existing debit remainder. Any debit balance must exist paid off before a limit tin be removed.

If we hold a valid mobile number for you, nosotros'll automatically enrol you to receive relevant alerts regarding borrowing and refused payments, to help you avoid charges. You tin can also choose to receive additional alerts, including Low Balance and Large Credit or Debit. Tailor your alerts to your personal needs online, past phone or in branch. To discover out more than, visit barclays.co.britain/alerts

*To maintain a quality service, nosotros may monitor and record calls. Calls to 03 numbers use free plan minutes if available. Otherwise they cost the same as 01/02 prefix calls.