Treating your credit score with consistency is preferable to employing ‘tricks.’ It encourages fiscal responsibility.

Treating your credit score with consistency is preferable to employing 'tricks.' It encourages fiscal responsibility.

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score to FICO for ...

Credit scores are a primary screening device for the allocation of credit, housing, and sometimes even employment. In the data, credit scores grow and fan out with age; at the same time, income and ...

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 ...

It’s Money Monday! Katherine Phillips sat down with Samuel Molina, the CEO of the Academy of Financial Education, based out of Fresno.  Molina spoke about why ...

Yes, you can get a free credit report and credit score online. There’s no payment or credit card information required an ...

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

George Kamel challenges the credit score system—learn why going into debt isn’t the only way to build wealth and what to do ...

What credit score do you need to get the best deal on a car lease? Here’s how your score affects the lease terms, and why the ...

The average American consumer has a credit score of 715, says Experian, one of the three major reporting bureaus. It’s a lot harder to get your credit score up to an 800 because that requires a ...