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Retail Loan Inquiries Improve + Delinquencies at FINTECH & NBFCS – CIBIL

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In the COVID-19 pandemic times, retail credit inquiry volumes in October 2020 were 81% of last year October levels. Enquiry volumes have improved in home loans as well as Loan Against Properties (LAP). Auto and 2W loans have also seen rebound in volumes due to shift in consumer preferences. Personal loan volumes are yet to rebound impacted by fintechs-driven growth during the pre-Covid time. State owned PSU banks have been the earliest to recommence lending followed by private banks. NBFCs have seen much slower recovery. Further, semi-urban and rural have seen better rebound. For Sep 2020, PSU banks inquiry volumes are at 1.2X yoy whereas private banks are at ~0.9X and NBFCs at 0.6X. Although slow initially, credit cards are now showing better traction. PSU banks have shown better growth pick-up compared to

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CIBIL Data – Retail Stress Increases in India

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India’s Leading Credit Bureau – CIBIL data reveals that delinquencies across product levels in the retail segment have shown a modest increase but the situation is not alarming. The main segment which is under stress is auto loans, which is driven by CVs as evidenced in the latest results of banks.

Credit Card Segment – While the overall credit card balances grew by ~41% YoY to ~Rs1.1tn,
balances in the semi-urban and rural areas grew at a faster pace (+52% YoY) indicating increasing usage of cards as a payment option in these areas.

In the Personal Loan segment, the origination volumes more than doubled to 7.3m accounts out of which ~68% were

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Consumer Lending DataPoints – CIBIL Analysis

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TransUnion CIBIL, a leading credit information bureau, shared some insights on behavioural trends in consumer / business lending in India. TransUnion CIBIL now has records of 400mn customers, of which 185mn customers have access to live retail lending facility. Within this, 85mn customers fall in consumer lending segment and ~100mn in business lending and others (agri, PSL etc). The company adds 15mn -20mn through new to credit route, 15% of overall.

There is improving penetration (breadth rather than depth) is reflected in unique customer enquiry growth accelerating from 27% in Q2CY18 to 43% in Q4CY18. Encouragingly, single product single account customers constitute 40–45% (in terms of volumes) for Credit Cards, Personal Loans & Consumer Durable Loans. No doubt, the cross-selling trend is on the rise—multi product multi accounts (MPMA) up from 32% in FY16 to 37% in FY18. That said, asset

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Indian Retail Loan Accounts Hit 100 Mn – CIBIL

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A recently report by CIBIL provides keen insights into the current state of the consumer loan growth business. Given their access to all market participants (banks and NBFCs). We see this product as well as their ‘MSME pulse’ as
one of the most important reports to understand these businesses.

Key takeaways from the recently published CIBIL report on consumer lending:
(1) Retail loans grew 27% yoy led by 26% growth in live accounts touching 100 million accounts. The flattish average ticket size is attributed to a change in the loan mix towards short duration consumer loans like credit cards, personal loans and consumer durable loans. (2) Average retail

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Top Credit Questions: How Many Credit Cards is Too Many?

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As we all know there are many credit card options available in the market which offers great benefits and card offers. It is really hard to turn down the opportunity when an executive calls with a fresh credit card option with great offers and benefits and you also think how hard can it be? To maintain all your credit cards. But did you ever gave a thought on how many cards can you actually manage to achieve a great score? Or too many cards are bad for your credit health?

The answer to this is no number is right. You can use multiple cards and maintain a good score and also use one card and see your credit score go for a toss. It’s not the number of credit cards you hold but it’s how you use them. If we determine the possibility for a great cibil score two credit cards would be enough in which you won’t be spending much and also will have room to pay your monthly dues on time. If a person wants to go for multiple credit cards, they definitely can but that depends from

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What Should be your Ideal Credit Utilization Ratio ?

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india-credit-utilization-rateCredit Cards are basically instruments introduced to extend per-approved credit line for your spend. While using them one has to be careful about Credit Utilization Ratio and impact on Credit Score. Most of our readers posed me a question on how much Credit can one use on the per-approved credit line of Cards, Personal Loans, etc without affecting one’s credit scores.

Credit Utilization Ratio is the percentage of available credit limit that one is utilizing. For example on a Card with

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