Interest is a fee paid for the use of another party’s money, to the borrower, it is the cost of renting money; to the lender, it is the income from lending it.
Examples of bank loans include borrowing P500 from a partner for a year at an interest of 6.5% and repaying it after a year, and borrowing P3,000 for 4 years at 5% interest rate.
Examples of bank loans also include Cyndi borrowing ₱30,000 from a bank and paying ₱3,375 for 2 years at a certain rate, and John wanting to have an interest income of ₱3,000 a year and investing ₱8,000 for one year at 8%.
Compound interest is the interest that is added to the old principal to make a new principal on which interest is again calculated for the next period, denoted by Ic.