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CreditVidya: Underwriting engine for next 100 mn borrowers

Credit Vidya combines alternative data to do the assessment

Foreign remittances under I-T lens
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The government had last year simplified Forms 15CA and 15CB, which are to be filled by entities in case of taxable foreign remittance

Ranju Sarkar
When Riyaz Ahmed from Erode in Tamil Nadu took a loan to buy a motorcycle, he had very little to show as credit history or income proof. The 23-year-old worker gets paid in cash at a local loom unit and had only bought a TV on a loan before this.

Yet, finance firms have to take a call on such customers within an hour or half to ensure they don’t walk away. Credit Vidya, a Mumbai-based start-up, helps lenders assess the credit and fraud risk for such thin-file and new-to-credit customers.

The start-up raised $5 million last week from venture capital firms