Second financial sector's low-income loans 'explosion'...Financial authorities also 'regulate speed'

Loans from the 2nd financial sector last month...Surging by more than KRW 1.5 trillion
Confirmation of 'balloon effect' as demand for loans shifts
More than 1.5 trillion won in loans from the second financial sector...For the first time since 21 years and 7 years,

[Anchor]
It's been about two months since financial authorities began tightening lending in the banking sector, including sharply tightening lending conditions.

Perhaps due to the policy effect, the rate of increase in household loans is decreasing in the five major banks, but loans from the second financial sector are increasing significantly.

The so-called "balloon effect" of shifting demand for loans is being confirmed.

Reporter Oh Dong-gun reports.

[Reporter]
It is estimated that loans from the second financial sector, such as credit loans and credit card loans, which are called the rapid power of the common people, soared by more than 1.5 trillion won last month.

According to the financial sector, credit card loans, cash services, and credit loans by credit card companies and capital companies increased by more than 900 billion won last month.
Insurance terms and conditions loans, which receive loans within the scope of refunds instead of terminating
insurance, also increased by about 300 billion won, which is called a representative 'recession type loan'.

[Juwon / Head of Economic Research at Hyundai Research Institute: Consumers need urgent funds. That's why I think there's a balloon effect in which loans increase a bit on the secondary side and now on credit loans and things like that."]

As the five major banks strengthened their lending conditions, demand for loans shifted to the secondary financial sector, which is relatively easy to borrow.

It is the first time in three years and three months that loans from the second financial sector have increased by more than 1.5 trillion won in a month since July 2021, when Kakao Bank and other public offering shares were subscribed.

[Kim Kwang-seok / Hanyang University Adjunct Professor: The unstable employment of wage workers and the sluggish sales of self-employed people can be seen as a movement of livelihood loans to overcome it, and it can be analyzed that it is different from the increase in investment-type debt, which has increased existing debt.]

Financial authorities reportedly set pace by asking the second financial sector to submit loan targets in November and December
Attention is also focusing on whether measures to prevent the 'loan balloon effect' can be taken at the
Financial Services Commission's household debt inspection meeting.

This is YTN Oh Dong-gun.


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