CIBIL and Credit Score in India

Credit History is a an alien term to 99% of the Indians. So lets explore the necessity of Credit History in India.

Prior to 2003, many businessmen[small / petty traders / contractors etc] including large business houses such as Essar, Jindals etc would borrow heavily from one bank and due to their mismanagement would default on loan payment @ that bank and go and avail a second loan at another bank

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CIBIL Credit Score to be available soon

Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd [CIBIL] will launch Credit Scoring system known as Cibil Credit Score. If you don’t know what a Credit Score is, you can know it now here.

CIBIL is aggregating data on the basis of PAN, Passport Number, Voter ID of all borrowers. At the end of August 2007, CIBIL had credit profiles of 90 Million individual borrowers. Every month CIBIL sends out more than 2 million credit reports to various institutions to analyze a person’s creditworthiness

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