Category: Credit
Should you wait for later tax free bond issues or invest in the REC issue?
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REC is the first company to come out with tax free bonds this year, and I have written about them earlier last week. In that review I said that there is not much difference in bonds from different companies and it doesn’t really matter which company you buy the bonds from. However, Shiv pointed me
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REC Tax Free Bond Issue 2012 – 13
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REC is the first company to start offering tax free bonds in this financial year (2012 – 13) and their issue opens on December 3rd 2012 and ends on December 10 2012. REC has been allowed to raise Rs. 5,000 crore through tax free bonds this year out which they have already raised Rs. 500
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All you ever wanted to know about CIBIL Credit Scores
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This post is written by the CIBIL Consumer Relations team. I’ve been in touch with CIBIL to help put together a comprehensive FAQ and they’ve been gracious enough to send an extremely detailed post on the usual questions that people have about CIBIL and will also be answering any questions that you may have. Please
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Understanding what Debt Recast means with Kingfisher Airlines Example
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Karthik posted the the following comment a few days ago: Karthik Reddy Chintaparthi October 15, 2012 at 5:12 pm [edit] Hi Manshu, Offlate I have been listening many “Debt Recast†by banks to some of the institutions like Kingfisher, may be Suzlon. Could you please post a detailed article on this debt recast ? Will
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CIBIL Score – Identity Theft
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This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at [email protected] What would you do if you come to know that a bank has sanctioned a loan in your name when you have not actually applied for
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CIBIL Credit Score – Negative Factors and Ways to Improve your Score
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This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at [email protected] Many of you must have checked your CIBIL credit score sometime in the past and for some of you it must have got a surprise either
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Check Your CIBIL Credit Score & Credit Information Report Online
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This post is written by Shiv Kukreja, who is a Certified Financial Planner and runs a financial planning firm, Ojas Capital in Delhi/NCR. He can be reached at [email protected] This is the 3rd post in a series of posts covering CIBIL Credit Information Report and CIBIL Credit Score. You can access the earlier two posts
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CIBIL Credit Information Report
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This post is written by Shiv Kukreja You know how increasingly critical your credit score is becoming these days. Nowadays, even one’s employment prospects could be affected by this score as the employers have started asking prospective candidates to submit their credit information report (CIR) during the interview process and a few candidates get rejected due
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CIBIL TransUnion Credit Score – Role in a Loan Application Process
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This post is written by Shiv Kukreja If you have taken a home loan and have been paying your EMIs quite regularly without even a single default, then it is highly likely that the next time you require any car loan or a credit card, you may be able to secure any of them with
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Home Loan Basics in India
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The topic of home loans has appeared a few times in comments now, and in this post I’ll cover some things that I have learned about home loans over the years. Home loans are disbursed based on the evaluation of property price When you approach a bank to give you a loan for a house,
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How to select a credit card in India?
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This is yet another post from the Suggest a Topic page, and this time I am going to talk about how to select a credit card. Radhika had asked this question once quite early on as well, but I didn’t feel that I have anything really useful to say on it so never got around
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The Future of Credit Cards in India
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The following is a guest post by Michael from CreditCardForum.com. He has conducted hundreds of credit card reviews for his site (his favorite being cash back credit cards) and has been analyzing the credit industry for years. Today, he will be discussing the international growth of credit cards and where he believes India will fit
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