Compensatory balance isLoan issuanceThe bank requires the borrowing enterprise to pay low or no interestloanTotal amount or actual borrowing amount mustpercentage(generally 10% to 20%).Compensatory balance helps banks reduceLoan risk, to compensate for the risks it may suffer;For borrowing enterprises, the compensatory balance increases theEffective interest rateThe interest paid by the enterprise remains unchanged, and the total amount of actual loans received decreases, increasing the financial burden of the enterprise.
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Compensatory balance
Actual interest rate of loan
=Nominal interest rate/(1 - compensatory balance ratio
The enterprise borrows 10 million yuan with compensatory balance,Nominal interest rate12%, and the compensatory balance ratio is 10%.Then the loan amount that can be used by the actual enterprise is 1000 × (1-10%)=9 million yuan,