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By Mohit Juneja | 26 October 2026

Does a Bounced Cheque Reduce Your CIBIL Score?

A cheque bounce on its own generally isn't reported to CIBIL. What can lower your score is what follows: if the bounced cheque was an EMI or card payment and it stays unpaid, the bank reports it as days past due. Several such misses over months can pull your score down. True or false? "A bounced cheque will reduce your CIBIL score." Partly true. The bounce itself isn't a credit event, so a returned rent or vendor cheque won't touch your score. But a bounced EMI or card payment that you don't clear quickly gets reported as a late payment, and that does.

SBI customer checking CIBIL score on YONO app
By Mohit Juneja | 26 October 2026

SBI CIBIL Score Check: Free Options for SBI Customers

You can check your CIBIL score free as an SBI customer through the YONO app, SBI Card or SBI General Insurance's website. Without any SBI account, you can use CIBIL's official site with your PAN. YONO and CIBIL also show the full report, so pick one route and stick with it each month.

Bank officer reviewing loan ledger illustrating net NPA calculation process
By Mohit Juneja | 16 October 2026

Net NPA: Meaning, Formula, and Banking Impact

Net NPA is what's left of a bank's bad loans (NPAs, loans overdue 90+ days) once you subtract the provisions it has set aside for losses. It's the number that tells you a bank's real exposure, not the headline figure. For a borrower, though, an NPA tag on your own account means something more immediate: an NPA tag on your own account may significantly affect your credit profile, lead to recovery activity, and make future borrowing more difficult.

Indian woman entering a password to open her Experian credit report PDF
By Mohit Juneja | 16 October 2026

Experian Credit Report PDF Password: How to Find It

The Experian credit report PDF password is usually the first four letters of your first name in capital letters, followed by the last four digits of your registered mobile number. This format applies when your report arrives as an email attachment from a lending app or platform, not when you download it directly from Experian's own site.

Credit Score Advice: Everything You Need to Know
By FREED India | 30 September 2026

Credit Score Advice: Everything You Need to Know

Most credit score advice exists to fix something that's already gone wrong. This is for the other situation: your score is fine right now, and you want to keep it that way, not react to a drop after it's already happened.

Indian borrower reviewing a duplicate loan entry on their credit report
By Mohit Juneja | 24 September 2026

Why Does One Loan Account Show Up Multiple Times on Your Credit Report?

Sometimes it's a legitimate reason: a loan sold or transferred to another lender. Sometimes it's a genuine error inflating how much debt you appear to carry. Here's how to tell which one you're looking at.

Indian first-time borrower reviewing an insufficient accounts message on their credit report
By Mohit Juneja | 24 September 2026

Why Does Your Credit Report Say 'Insufficient Number of Accounts'? (And How to Fix It)

A 23-year-old applies for her first credit card, gets rejected, and pulls her CIBIL report expecting to find something wrong. Instead, she finds "an insufficient number of accounts" sitting where a score should be. It's not a bad score; it's no score at all yet. Here's exactly what triggers this message and the real timeline to fix it.

Indian borrower learning what CIBIL stands for and how it works
By Mohit Juneja | 24 September 2026

CIBIL Full Form and Meaning: The Basics Explained

CIBIL's full form is Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited, now operating as TransUnion CIBIL, one of India's licensed credit bureaus. It collects loan and repayment data from banks and NBFCs, then compiles it into the credit report and score that lenders check whenever you apply for credit.

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