Consumer Bureau

 

As banking and financial institutions are faced with constant challenges, from complying with new government regulations to acquiring and managing customers in a volatile marketplace, we understand how important it is for lenders to acquire and manage the right consumers for their asset products. An important lever in identifying the right segment and the right consumer is delivered by reviewing consumer credit information at the time of acquiring the customer and through the lifecycle.

From a borrowers' perspective, it is important that their data is reported accurately and that the information is up-to-date to ensure decisions are made correctly by lenders.

Both the lender and the borrower have the ability to access the information held in our database which helps the borrower maintain and review his/her credit history and helps the lender improve asset quality. Our consumer credit reports are built from our Equifax consumer credit database, using state-of-the-art searching and matching algorithms, backed by data from our member institutions.

The Equifax consumer credit database is a leading information services source for the credit granting community. It allows lenders to make faster, more informed credit granting decisions, while enabling them to manage their risk and maximize growth opportunities.

This is what it offers:

  • Consumer credit files from all regions across India with the history of repayment on the consumer across his/her various loans and credit cards.
  • Freshness of data, with data being updated on a regular basis from our member institutions.
  • Operated using advanced search techniques and matching logic, which aggregates all information about the consumer across his /her various loans and cards with our member institutions.
  • Managed in our world class technology and operations platform.

The following are the benefits:

  • Better lending decisions led by a "world-view" of the borrowers track record.
  • Reduced credit risk with access to the consumer's trade and inquiry information over a period of time.
  • Improved identification of the consumer with access to ID information as available with other Equifax members.
  • Robust tracking of credit performance of the portfolio on a regular basis.

Individuals can only access their own consumer information report (Basic CIR). All other products are available only for members and specified users.

 

Consumer Information Reports (CIR)

 

 

Equifax maintains an ongoing, continuous improvement approach throughout our business to ensure we always meet and exceed our customers' expectations. We offer basic and enhanced credit information reports to meet our customers' evolving needs.

Basic Consumer Information Report (Basic CIR)
A highly usable and readable consumer credit report backed by our advanced search and match algorithms will help you assess consumer risk. With our extensive consumer credit database across our members which cover all regions in India and higher data acceptance rates, you can get a complete view of the borrower.

Our basic consumer information report has 5 sections

  1. Identification and Contact Section: Confirm application information with access to the consumer's name, date of birth/age, address and ID information
  2. Credit Summary: Get a quick overview of consumer's key credit characteristics.
  3. Recent Activity: Helps you quickly assess consumer's recent activity including accounts which have gone delinquent, new accounts that have been opened, etc.
  4. Account Details Section: Account-wise details of the consumer's repayment history.
  5. Inquiries Section: Details the Inquiries made on a consumer.

Enhanced Consumer Information Report (Enhanced CIR) 
Our enhanced consumer information reports are a more visually detailed format of the basic consumer information report with at-a-glance graphs and charts for utilization, credit mix and delinquency trend.

Over and above the sections offered in the basic CIR, an enhanced CIR also provides graphical illustrations that provide a quick snapshot of the credit portfolio, detailing the distribution of credit in the consumer portfolio, available credit limit against utilized and overall performance. This is helpful for institutions doing manual underwriting.

For more information on our services and for process of becoming a member, please contact us

 

 

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Equifax Alerts

 

Activity Alerts
Equifax Activity Alerts are a series of credit event alerts that are delivered by utilizing data from Equifax's credit file. This powerful tool will alert you to credit active customers in your portfolio who have recently demonstrated a possible need or desire for additional credit. Activity alerts can bring attention to customers in your portfolio that are seeking credit and therefore help you in monitoring their behavior proactively.

Collection Alerts
Equifax Collection Alerts empower changes to your collection process by offering solutions designed to optimize collection efforts and money spent.

It combines the value of industry-leading contact data with strategically selected credit-based triggers that flag when a consumer's ability to pay has improved, indicating that the timing may be opportune to re-initiate collection efforts. Conversely, other triggers highlight when a debtor's ability to pay is degrading, so that collection activity may be suspended to avoid incurring additional costs that are unlikely to yield a recovery.

For more information on our services and for process of becoming a member, please contact us

 

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Equifax Portfolio Review

The Equifax India portfolio review solution is designed to capitalize on predictive insight, with the goal of taking both positive and negative action to assure profit and generate revenue. The product provides added flexibility and actionable customer management.

The unique features of the product are:

  • The portfolio review product may be provided in conjunction with Alerts – this is the only Portfolio Review product in the market with this capability. Alerts may be triggered and then a portfolio review may be run on those specific accounts. 
  • More than 200 attributes can be delivered with a unique attribute packaging
    • All Attributes Review
      • Provides an overall view of the individual’s credit profile
      • Focuses on overall credit usage and utilization
      • Tracks all delinquencies reported on file
    • Credit Card Review
      • Contains attributes specific to credit card trade lines
    • Secured Installment Review
      • Contains attributes specific to secured installment trade lines
    • Unsecured Installment Review
      • Contains attributes specific to unsecured installment trade lines
    • Score Review
      • Provides the Equifax Risk Score along with a few key attributes
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Equifax Risk Score

The new Equifax Risk Score TM has been developed to leverage the most recent data from its members. This new market-level risk score is designed to predict the likelihood that a customer will default in the next 12 months. It is the first score in the market to score not only those consumers on file but also no-hits. No-hits are data files that are returned when there is no matching record found on the database for the corresponding enquiry due to the lack of complete data or the enquiring customer being new to borrowing. The Equifax Risk Score is calculated based on the enquiry parameters such as demographic attributes. It is especially important to validate the repayment abilities of new entrants to the consumer lending market, particularly for those where credit information / history available is limited. 

The unique features of the product are:

  • Developed specifically for the Indian market, using Indian data, incorporating local market knowledge
  • Developed using data from major market players
  • Designed to score consumers for evaluating his/her market level risk
  • Can score no-hits and inquiry-only files.
  • Designed to work with any standard product type
  • Definitions consistent with international standards

 

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