Credit Card Settlement - New Norms on Anvil by RBI

There is finally a ray of hope for the countless and hapless credit card users who were so far being held to ransom by Credit card providing banks even on final settlement of dues by forwarding their names to Cibil, as still owing dues to the banks.

The Reserve Bank of India is very soon coming out with new guidelines which will disallow any bank to treat a customer as a Credit Card defaulter if they have negotiated the amount payable against his account and paid the amount to the banks providing such credit cards. Currently even after the customer has paid the negotiated amount as offered by the bank, their names continue to be forwarded to Cibil-Credit Information Bureau Of India Limited, the central repository of all consumers credit history across all banks formed in Jan 2001.

As a result of being treated as a defaulter the customer is not able to avail of any loans like personal loan, business loan, loan against property or home loan from any banks as the credit rating maintained by Cibil takes a free-fall downward. Being cornered and without any hopes of acquiring such loans from any banks the customer had to settle any dues as claimed and raised by the banks being the balance amount of the earlier settled amount plus penalties and interest due till date.

At present whenever dues are settled with a bank the balance is usually treated as amount written off. In many cases banks raise bills for very small amount balance including annual fees after settlement which should not have been charged at all in the first place.

Though the RBI is taking a very serious note of the matter and will declare fresh guidelines to address the current ailment in due course countless affected customers await with bated breath of the succor to be provided by the Apex Bank of India.

The author Subhrajeet Talukdar is the founder of Apex Finance & Marketing in Mumbai in April 2006 and the promoter of Eazeeloans.com a premier loan advisory portal.

Credit Card Debt Consolidation - Live A Debt Free Life

It is quite true that one can never enjoy life to the fullest without getting freedom from financial hassles. People, who are struggling to pay off their previous loans, do not like to apply for a loan due to the strict loan approval criteria of all banks and financial institutions. In fact, getting a loan in such situation will increase the financial burden of the borrower and he or she will definitely get depressed. When you are suffering from the problem of due debts, it is very essential to find out a suitable solution for their removal.

Efficient and professional help is what a borrower needs to settle his or debts at once. Since credit cards play a vital role in increasing the financial burden of the defaulter, settling credit card debts should be the first priority of the defaulter. At present, there are n numbers of financial institutions that offer credit card debt consolidation services, so that the defaulter may settle due credit card bills along with monstrous late fees and high interest rate. In fact, by settling credit card bills, the defaulter can feel quite relaxed, as credit card companies keep on increasing interest on their services.

Since consolidating credit card bills is the biggest necessity for a defaulter, credit card debt consolidation can prove to be very beneficial solution. It is quite true that keeping due debts can affect various social, legal and financial rights of a person therefore, it is must for a defaulter to pay off all due debts to avoid these restrictions. Basically, CCJs and IVAs can restrict the defaulters financial benefits for minimum six years but clearing all credit card bills can reduce that time period . However, bad credit can extend the disqualification period of a bad credit borrower but with credit card debt consolidation, every defaulter can get complete financial freedom.

While searching for credit card debt consolidation service provider, the borrower should not make any decision without proper market research. Since these service providers ask for your debt details, always evaluate all credit card bills before approaching any financial institution or bank. First of all, the borrower needs to gather all his or her credit card bills, so that the required loan amount can be evaluated. On the basis of this evaluation, he or she can apply for a debt consolidation loan. Since all debt consolidation service providers offer these services for people, who have due credit card debt up to £5000, the total debt of the borrower should be £5000 or more.

Getting credit card debt consolidation help is very simple, as most of these service providers offer their services through online mode. Online processing system not only makes this service fast but also allows the borrower to apply from the comfort of his or her home. For getting these services through online mode, you just need to fill an online application with a reliable service provider. Once professionals of these service provider firms complete the analysis and verification process, they consolidate all your debts into one monthly payment which will be definitely, lower than the sum of due credit card bills.

Defaulters of Loans Or Credit Cards From Banks, Beware of Cibil

Credit card and personal loan defaulters will find it more difficult to evade credit collection officers in future.

Banks can now track defaulters who have absconded or skipped payment through information currently being provided by Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd. (Cibil). Whenever a defaulting borrower applies for a fresh loan with any bank his credit history can be accessed by on e mail.

It was near impossible till very recent times to trace a customer in event of change of address unless communicated to the lending bank. Now due to the central database maintained by Cibil containing amongst others data about date of birth and PAN number etc they can be located and identified.

While there is a controversy about sharing such data & services to lending banks being an infringement on privacy the same seems to be well purview of the CIBIL act as confirmed by MD. Arun Thukral.

Surprisingly there have been cases in the past where two branches of the same bank have given loans to the same borrower due to unavailability of real time credit history of the customer. Sharing of database maintained by Cibil amongst lending banks will be a remedy to this unwanted problem.

Customers too would now be able to access their Cibil report by making online payment to Cibil who would mail the report to the address on its record. According to Mr. Thukral Cibil is also offering its analytical tools to banks to facilitate their decisions on credit worthiness of loan applicants by allotting credit score based on existing and past relationship across all products by participating banks.

The Reserve Bank of India had declared new guidelines which will disallow any bank to treat a customer as a defaulter if they have negotiated the amount payable against his account and paid the amount to the banks providing such credit cards or loans. Credit Information Bureau Of India Limited is the central repository of all consumers credit history across all banks formed in Jan. 2001.