Category Archives: Credit Score

Credit checks: How to lose a job

  Slap your back, treat yourself to a sinful sauna session and scrape all those photo-bombed selfies from your Facebook page. That fairy-tale job you’ve been pursuing doggedly is now yours. The interview rounds are done and you’ve been asked to submit the necessary paperwork to set the hiring process in motion. Only, the ‘Welcome… Read More »

Understanding your loan parameters!

EMI Calculation You need to know the loan amount, processing fee and the interest rate of your car loan, home loan or personal loan. If you plan to prepay your loan, then figure out the exact or approximate amount you intend to prepay and the periodicity of such payments depending on your loan agreement. Use… Read More »

How to maintain a good Credit History?

You must be aware of loan and credit card applications getting rejected due to bad credit history or a lesser credit score. But have you ever wondered as to what contributes to building your credit score? What are the ways that can help you in establishing and maintaining a worthy credit report? We always think… Read More »

Have a credit card personality?

  When we talk about credit card usage we find different people managing it in a different way. Some people are highly disciplined and never default on their monthly installments and others are so messy that they are always on the top of the defaulter list. Managing finance is a complex task and it’s very… Read More »

Loans in 2013 and the road ahead!

The latest announcement by the Reserve Bank of India to keep its key policy rates unchanged has triggered a positive sentiment in the home loan market. With the RBI keeping the repo rate unchanged at 7.75 per cent, reverse repo rate at 6.75 per cent and the cash reserve ratio at 4 per cent, major… Read More »