How does CIBIL score impact your borrowing

CIBIL (Credit Information Bureau India Limited) is credit information company in India, that gathers financial data for maintaining credit records.

Information is shared by partners such as banks, lenders and other financial institution. This information is evaluated by CIBIL to understand the creditworthiness of a person. Based on the evaluation a score ranging between 300 and 900 is derived, that fundamentally signifies the credit history of an individual.

So when you are planning to take a Personal Loan or a home loan it is advised to get your CIBIL score checked. Your CIBIL score principally highlights your financial picture and helps lending institutes to assess the capability of repayment.

A person with good credit score, at times, enjoys the benefit of a cheaper interest rate on Personal Loan. But, if the credit score is less than a minimum benchmark set by the lender, the application is rejected immediately.

Generally, a person with a credit score of 750 and above is considered to be a good borrower. Also, a score below 600 reflects that a person has defaulted on payments in past. However, different lenders have a different definition of good credit score. Hence, it is very important to maintain your CIBIL score for getting any kind of loan.

How to improve your credit score

-You can follow few simple steps to improve your credit score.

Repayment of credit card spends

-To improve your score, repay your balances and try to keep them low at all point of time

-Even if you clear the full balance every month but your utilization is higher the credit score might be impacted. Hence, you need to keep the necessary checks and balances on the spends

-Also, some of the lenders assess you through the balance reported to the bureau, so it becomes necessary for you to keep the spending in limit

Pay your EMIs and bills on time

-Set reminders to pay your credit card bill because even one single default can impact your CIBIL score

-Make necessary arrangements to pay your all you EMIs on time

Servicing Debt

-Taking loan for a longer period and paying your EMI's on time has a positive impact on your credit score

-Paying debt on time for a longer duration builds the repayment history stronger and better

Frequent requirement of new credit

-Lenders check your CIBIL score every time you apply for a new loan

-Reducing the frequency of new loan application will help in maintaining the credit score

Healthy mix of credit

-Timely servicing a mix of secured and unsecured loan will help in improving your financial history

-A mix of Personal Loan and mortgage loan is a healthy mix and if it's paid off timely your credit score recovers and improves considerably.

However, you may opt for a personal loan for debt consolidation as the process of getting a personal loan is much easier. To understand the monthly outgo towards your total loan amount you may use debt consolidation calculator offered by Bajaj Finserv.

Bajaj Finserv, India's most diversified financial company, through its lending arm Bajaj Finance disburses the loan within 72 hours based on details filled by the applicant on their website. The company runs a quick background check and if it meets all the criteria's the loan application is approved instantly.

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