PEDERSEN Finance Company has framed and adopted a voluntary code, which sets out the principles for fair practice standards when dealing with customers, partners. As per the financial service directives, we have adopted and will implement this Fair Practices Code in our company which has been duly approved by Board of Directors of the Company. This Fair Practices Code applies to the all categories of products and services offered by the Company (currently offered or which may be introduced at a future date).
Key Commitments
The Company's key commitments to customers:
a. Act fairly and reasonably in all their dealings with customers by:
- Meeting the commitments and standards in this Code, for the products and services the Company offers and in the procedures and practices its staff follows
- Making sure that Company's products and services meet relevant rules and regulations
- Company's dealings with customers will rest on ethical principles of integrity and transparency.
b. Help customers understand how company's product work by:
- Explaining their financial implications and benefits
c. Deal quickly and sympathetically with things that go wrong by:
- Handling customers response quickly
- Ensuring superfast processing of Loan application
- Quickly disbursement of Loan amount to eligible borrower's account
d. Publicize this Code, put it on Company's website and have copies available for customer on request.
Information
- 1. Helping customer choose products and services, which meet their needs and give them clear information explaining the key features of the services and products they are interested in.
- 2. Inform customers about the documents and information the Company needs from them to establish Customer's true identity and address and, other documents to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
Applicatiions for Loans & their Processing
- 1. All communications to the borrower shall be in the language as understand by the borrower.
- 2. The Loan application forms of the Company will include necessary information which affects the interest of the borrower; the loan application form will indicate the documents required to be submitted with the application form.
- 3. The Company will have a system of giving acknowledgement for receipt of all loan applications. The time frame within which loan applications will be disposed of will be indicated in the acknowledgement.
Loans Appraisal & Terms / Conditions
The Company will convey in writing to the borrower in the language as understand by the borrower by means of loan agreement or otherwise, the amount of loan approved along with the terms and conditions including annualised rate of interest and method of disbursal thereof and keep the acceptance of these terms and conditions by the borrower on its record. The Company will mention the penal interest charged for late repayment in bold in the loan agreement.
The Company will furnish a copy of the loan agreement preferably in the language as understand by the borrower along with a copy of each of all enclosures quoted in the loan agreement to all the borrowers at the time of disbursement of loans.
Disbursement Of Loans Including Changes In Terms And Conditions
- 1. The Company will give notice to the borrower in the language as understood by the borrower of any change in the terms and conditions including disbursement schedule, interest rates, prepayment charges if any etc. A suitable condition in this regard should be incorporated in the loan agreement.
- 2. Decision to recall / accelerate payment or performance under the agreement will be in consonance with the loan agreement.
- 3. The Company will release all securities on repayment of all dues or on realisation of the outstanding amount of loan subject to any legitimate right or lien for any other claim the Company may have against borrower. If such right of set off is to be exercised, the borrower will be given notice about the same with full particulars about the remaining claims and the conditions under which the Company is entitled to retain the securities till the relevant claim is settled.
General
- 1. The Company will refrain from interference in the affairs of the borrower except for the purposes provided in the terms and conditions of the loan agreement (unless new information, not earlier disclosed by the borrower, has come to the notice of the Company).
- 2. In case of receipt of request from the borrower for transfer of borrowal account, the consent or otherwise i.e. objection of the Company, if any, will be conveyed within 21 days from the date of receipt of request. Such transfer shall be as per transparent contractual terms in consonance with law.
- 3. In the matter of recovery of loans, the Company will not resort to undue harassment viz. persistently bothering the borrowers at odd hours, use of muscle power for recovery of loans, etc.To avoid rude behavior from the staff of the Company, the Company shall ensure that the staff are adequately trained to deal with the customers in an appropriate manner.
Further Assistance
- (1) A grievance redressal mechanism within the organization comprising Business Heads, Heads of Risk Prevention, and Heads of Operations has been set up to resolve disputes arising in this regard.
- (2) There will be a periodical review of the compliance of the Fair Practices Code and the functioning of the grievances redressal mechanism at various levels of management. A consolidated report of such reviews will be submitted to the Board at regular intervals.
- (3) The following information shall be displayed prominently, for the benefit of the customers, at all branches / places of the Company where business is transacted:
- (4) The name and contact details (Telephone / Mobile nos. as also email address) of the Grievance Redressal Officer who can be approached for resolution of complaints against the Company.
- (5) If the difference or dispute is not redressed, resolve within a period of 30 days. In such a scenario, the company will tell the concerned customer how to take their complaint forward if they are still not satisfied.
The public notice should serve the purpose of highlighting to the customers, the grievance redressal mechanism followed by the Company, together with details of the Grievance Redressal Officer.
Posting On Website
Fair Practices Code preferably in the language as understand by the cusatomer should be put up on the website of the Company for the information of customers.
Regulation Of Rate Of Interest
- (1) Did you mean: The Company has adopted interest rates model for determining the rate of interest to be charged on loans, The rate of interest and the approach for gradation of risk and rationale for charging rates of interest to different loans shall be disclosed to customers at the time of application and it will be communicated explicity in the loan agreement.
- (2) The rates of interest shall also be made available on the website. The information published in the website or otherwise published should be updated whenever there is a change in the rates of interest. So that the customers should be aware of the exact rates that would be charged to the customers.
- (3) The rate of interest should be floating interest rate, variable rate or fixed interest rate. Whichever is suitable with the customer.
