Who checks the quality of technology or data-matching algorithms used by CIBIL or the other credit bureaus? What is the redress process, when it fails?
Sucheta Dalal
At Moneylife’s ‘Open House’ with RBI deputy governor Dr KC Chakrabarty on 3rd June, an angry customer stood up to complain about Credit Information Bureau of India Limited (CIBIL), which practically enjoys a monopoly of the credit bureau business. On 4th June, we received an angry letter from one Umesh Dhawan whose Rs5-lakh loan was rejected because he was shown as a defaulter by CIBIL. He was under the impression that his banker had reported him. But we discovered that the problem was far worse. CIBIL apparently used its own algorithm to match data and ended up mixing his data with that of another person called Umesh Uhawan.
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