A complete list of all the registered credit bureaus in South Africa and their contact details.
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We’ve been discussing credit scores and how credit bureaus get to determine your ratings for loan applications in South Africa.
However, we never really ask exactly who are credit bureaus in the country. So today I want to list all the credit bureaus registered with the National Credit Regulator in the country.
Let’s get started.
What is a Credit Bureau?
A credit bureau plays an important role in the credit industry in South Africa.
Their job is nothing else but to provide lenders with customer credit rating reports in the country. And also obligated to give South Africans free credit reports as required.
Lenders would then use the content of the report to decide on unsecured personal loans.
Registered Credit Bureaus
If you wanted to know how many credit bureaus are there in South Africa, there are currently 45 registered credit bureaus, which we’ll list below.
The four (4) major and largest credit bureaus:
And the rest of them with respective contact details:
- CrossCheck Information Bureau (010 590 9505)
- Consumer Profile Bureau (010 590 9505)
- TNP Credit Bureau (086 187 6000)
- Managed Integrity Evaluation (012 644 4000)
- Inoxico (010 007 2600)
- CreditWatch (010 590 9505)
- Southern African Fraud Prevention Service Npc (011 867 2234)
- VeriCred Credit Bureau (087 150 3601)
- Clearscore (063 408 3255)
- Kudough Credit Solutions (021 206 9964)
- Cred-IT-Data Online Holdings (086 122 2210)
- Maris IT Development (012 542 7614/5)
- Omnisol Information Technology (011 380 8054)
- Lexisnexis Risk Management (021 658 9749)
- Smart Information Bureau (087 230 0299)
- Searchworks 360 (086 034 0000)
- V-Report (011 432 4416)
- Accountability Group (086 190 9090)
- Payprop Capital (087 820 7260)
- Pbverify (011 516 9465)
- Blue Oak Systems (021 912 3500)
- iFacts (011 453 1627)
- Dots Africa (010 446 7683)
- Credit Gateway (012 111 1611)
- Trans Africa Credit Bureau (011 019 0099)
- MyCreditStatus (087 238 2055)
- Octagon Business Solutions (011 847 9200)
- I-Bureau Services (087 654 5929)
- Fincheck (010 594 0286)
- National Validation Services (010 593 1998)
- Effective Intelligence (087 701 8935)
- ThisIsMe (021 4 223995)
- Fides Cloud Technologies (011 258 4442)
- Clicknhire ([email protected])
- Loyal1 (083 395 2299)
- Lightstone (087 359 3241)
- Bitventure Consulting (011 616 0849)
- Transaction Capital Credit Health (011 560 6051)
- Cession Central (056 515 1181)
- WeconnectU (086 999 0756)
- Ulwazi Municipal Services (082 534 4032)
How Do They Work?
The purpose of each credit bureau is not to make decisions on who to lend money but to collect customer information and analyse to assist lenders to make informed decisions.
Banks and other lenders will use this information to know your creditworthiness and the loan amount you could qualify for.
So the role of a credit bureau is vital in loan consideration-fairness and ensuring the correct loan applicant receives an affordable amount.
