India's RBI mandates weekly reporting to credit bureaus

Change
India's RBI required lenders to switch from fortnightly to weekly reporting of borrower data to credit information companies, effective April 1, with incremental submissions due on the 9th, 16th and 23rd of each month and a full file at month-end.
India's RBI mandates weekly reporting to credit bureaus
Why it matters
Lenders must build operational processes for continuous borrower monitoring and fold near-real-time bureau checks into underwriting and early-warning systems. Credit-data pipelines and quality controls must operate on a higher-frequency schedule, increasing technical and compliance demands for both lenders and credit information companies.
Implications
  • Retail and commercial lenders' data operations teams must extract and submit incremental borrower updates on the 9th, 16th and 23rd of each month and deliver a full file at month-end.
  • Credit information companies must scale processing capacity and implement stricter data-quality controls to handle weekly incremental flows.

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Source

Economic Times

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Banking Regulation Financial Services

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