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January 22, 2021

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Does your Personal Credit Rating Affect your Business Loan Application?

One of the questions we’ve been asked on multiple occasions is about the link between personal credit ratings and securing business finance. We’re no finance experts… but we have managed to get the expert input of someone who is. In this piece, contributed by Sho Sugihara who is is the CEO of credit building app Portify. Portify’s technology has pioneered a way to assess creditworthiness in real time. The app partners with Credit Reference Agencies to improve peoples credit scores. Sho answers the question for us about what impact your personal credit history might have on a business loan application.

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