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Documents You Need to Apply for a Loan in Rwanda

The exact list, for personal and business loans, plus the one fee that's calculated upfront -- no surprises.

31 July 2026 · 5 min read

The public application form only asks for the basics — name, phone, email, loan type, amount, and income. Everything below is what you'll complete afterward, once you're approved, through your own account. Knowing it upfront means you're not caught off guard partway through.

For every loan

If you're applying for a Business Loan

Business loans carry a few additional requirements, since we're assessing a business's operating history alongside your personal income:

The one fee, calculated upfront

There's a single origination fee: 1% of your requested loan amount plus 18% VAT on that fee, with a floor of RWF 30,000 for smaller loans. On a RWF 1,000,000 loan, that works out to RWF 30,000. You see this number on the application form itself, before you submit — it's never a surprise added later.

Key takeaway

No other fees exist outside your interest and this one origination fee. If someone asks you to pay anything else to "process" or "release" a Cham Business loan, it isn't us — contact us directly to check.

What slows an application down

Almost always the same thing: a document that doesn't match what's declared elsewhere — a bank statement under a different name, an ID that's expired, income figures that don't line up. Have everything above ready and matching before you start your application, and there's nothing left to hold it up.

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