The main difference between secured and unsecured loans is that secured loans require collateral and unsecured loans don’t.
For instance, a secured home loan uses your home as collateral, and a secured vehicle loan uses your vehicle as collateral. If you fail to pay the loan, you can lose your asset.
Unsecured loan benefits include a simpler application and approval process, because there is not a need to secure a title to collateral property.
Unsecured loans, also called unsecured personal loans, are backed by your creditworthiness—your past repayment history and your credit score, among other factors. Because of this, interest rates on unsecured loans can be higher than those on secured loans. We only approve good-to-excellent credit profiles for LightStream loans.