Month: September 2016

CIBIL-Transunion Tracking 525 Million Loan Accounts, Rise of Retail Lending

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cibil-tracking-loan-accounts-indiaCIBIL Transunion is India’s Largest credit bureau with with data on 200mn Indian Citizens and 525mn loan accounts in its big data repository. The CIBIL management shared insights on the Rise of Retail Borrowing and Lending.

The strong trend in retail loan growth is aided by healthy growth in new account additions for both private players and NBFCs thus pointing to healthy granularity of the underlying retail loan growth. Even in microfinance space the underwriting trend is good with usage of TransUnion CIBIL/Aadhar helping minimize cases of duplicate lending

Despite steady y-o-y growth in retail segment, the underwriting trend remains good and there seems

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Understand The Interest Free Period On Your Credit Card?

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Interest Free Period On Your Credit CardThey say “Necessity is the mother of all inventions”. Credit Cards were born out of the need to provide an alternative to cash. Almost half a century back, when credit cards were introduced, they became an instant hit. Till date, people love to use their “plastic money” for they are universally accepted, quick, easy and relatively safe, help you keep a record of your purchases through monthly statements, great for bill payments and provide a host of other benefits through their loyalty points programs.

Let’s step in to the wonderful world of credit and learn on how to use credit cards to our advantage by

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