Empowering Your Financial Decisions
I have a score of 700+ on CIBIL (I had taken out a report on my own by paying online at CIBIL). My recent application for a Personal Loan at ICICI Bank was rejected. The reason given to me that there is a settlement in my account that happened some time back. because of this, my loan has been rejected.
Is this possible? Isnt credit score the only indicator banks look at for evaluating a profile? How can an old settlement case be reason for loan rejection when my score is so high
Will my credit score come down if there are delays in payments due not on my main credit card but the add-on card?
One keeps hearing terms like Credit Repair, Credit Improvement & Credit Sudhaar – what do these credit repair companies promise?
Is it really something that works?
What should one watch out for while selecting a credit repair program or offering?
I keep hearing terms like Good Credit Score and Bad credit score? What exactly is a bad credit score? How bad can the score really be? How is it bad apart from the fact that it is low and banks will not lend.
You mention that there are multiple bureaus and hence multiple reports now available for loan seekers?
Which report(s) do banks use to decide?
What are the ways for me to get my credit score.?
I just need the score, not the detailed report.
Has your Credit Card Application been rejected due to low or bad CIBIL score?
Dont't worry. You are not alone to be experiencing this. In fact most banks in India have confirmed that one of the major reject reasons for applicants seeking a Credit Card is low or no Credit Score (CIBIL Score).
If your Credit card or loan application has ever been rejected, share your experience with us here.
India is home to multiple credit bureaus including CIBIL, Equifax.
A recent RBI directive has ensured that every bank in the country will have to submit the consumer data to all the 4 bureaus. While this may sound like an increased overhead at the bank's end, it is interesting to also understand why the regulator would have insisted on doing so. While each bureau has its own black-box model for building their scores, the fact that there are 4 different scoring models will definitely help in building confidence at the lenders end.
Banks can now avoid both types of errors i.e. classifying bad loan seekers as good and classifying good loan seekers as bad. If a majority of bureaus have the same classification for the consumer, the bank's staff can be assured that the chances of a wrong decision due to a poor model are low.
CIBIL is a Credit Bureau authorized to operate in India. It was the first credit bureau and as a result now CIBIL report is a term used generically for all bureau reports in India.
CIBIL collates the information submitted by banks and other lenders and generates the CIBIL report. CIBIL is allowed to share your CIBIL report with banks when you seek new loans or with banks who have given you a loan already.
You can also get a copy of your CIBIL report directly.
If you were to get a copy of your CIBIL report then it will contain the following details:
Unlike developed nations the credit bureaus in India do not have information about utilities like phone, electricity etc., and insurance payments. Currently CIBIL only has the information provided by banks.
This is the situation right now, but over time even this information is expected to become part of the data available with the credit bureaus. This report is like a financial report card for an individual. It has very sensitive information and is a private document that needs to be guarded closely.
CIBIL or other credit bureaus are repository of information, where by they store and disseminate information about credit behaviour of borrowers.
While they may seem like God to know a lot about you (just take a look at what all your CIBIL report contains) and affecting you in your financial matters, the information contained in the bureaus is all based on data submitted by banks and other such institutions.
Every month or even more frequently banks submit information about your loans to CIBIL and other credit bureaus. In this data submission not only details of your loans like timely repayment and amount outstanding are shared but information about address, phone numbers etc also shared. Apart from this when you apply for a new loan then the bank enquiries about you with the bureau to find out your details.
At that time the information submitted to the bureau like name, DOB, address and phone numbers along with loan type (Personal loan, credit card etc.) and amount of the loan you applied for are also saved by the bureau and updated to your profile.