November 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Know your credit score to make better informed financial decisions

PRESS RELEASE

DPI, Guyana, Thursday, November 22, 2018

– all lending agencies are mandated by law to share all credit data with the credit bureau

– “a lender cannot pull your credit report without your consent”

– know your credit score – it prevents over-indebtedness and encourages responsible borrowing and brings stability to the financial sector

– credit bureau was established in 2013 and operates under the Credit Report Act of 2010 and the Credit Reporting [Amendment] Act of 2016

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Creditinfo inks contract with Housing Finance Kenya  

The Housing Finance Company in Kenya have introduced mobile lending this summer and chose to use Creditinfo’s Instant Decisions as the one and only decision-making tool. They chose an in-house installation back in June and then, after several weeks of consultancy and strategy design project, we have come together with the customer to the point where we have a very complex strategy with 3 different Credit Limit Allocation matrices, matching competition’s limit and limit allocation as a function of previously received loans. After successful pilot in July, August they opened it for a wider population, and just recently, in November, to the entire Kenyan population, through all channels – iOS, Android and USSD – and they had a big marketing campaign for USSD customers that had its apogees last week, starting November 18th 2018.

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