The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has decided to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score for borrower applications.

President Donald Trump's administration announced this week that mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will now accept VantageScore credit scores.

FHFA Director William Pulte said that lenders may now use VantageScore 4.0, an alternative to the FICO score, while assessing ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the company behind the widely recognized FICO score, to ...

FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced on Tuesday that the GSEs will accept VantageScore 4.0 immediately and keep tri-merge ...

With BNPL loans exploding in popularity, a change is coming to credit scoring that shows just how mainstream they have become ...

As this year's water bill hasn't been sent to me yet, my credit report shows a £500 debt to the water company. Is this a ...

Hit Record Meter (let's call it HRM from here on) bases its visualisation on four key metrics: Peak level, RMS level, slew ...

Can you actually boost your score in weeks instead of years? I decided to ask ChatGPT for the fastest ways to raise a credit score. Here's what it said.

How to make sure unemployment doesn’t affect your credit score Knowing the indirect ways that unemployment can impact your credit could help you protect your score.

If you’re using your credit card issuer’s app or website just to pay your bills and check in on some recent transactions, you’re only tapping into a fraction of the features available to you.

Favour Asante spent years battling with Scottish Power over a non-existent debt A woman who had a prepayment meter forcibly installed in her home over a debt she did not owe says her credit score ...