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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 ...

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The perfect 850 credit score can give you some enjoyable bragging rights, but you don't need to be perfect. Your real credit score goal should be a lot lower.

For years, lenders have used only the FICO score, from Fair Isaac Corp. — a metric that generally excludes such things as ...

The average credit score in America is 715, unchanged from the previous year. Find out how yours compares in this full report by Motley Fool Money.

The FICO credit score is the most popular and widely used credit scoring model. Created in 1989 by the Fair Issac Corporation (which rebranded to FICO in 2009), it follows a 300-850 scale where a ...

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Your credit score is a three-digit number that reflects your credit history. It's not the complete financial picture, but lenders consider it when evaluating you for lines of credit and insurance ...

LIMITATIONS OF CREDIT SCORING SYSTEM It is imperative to note that, despite the above-mentioned benefits, the likely limitations should not be ignored. These include:- ...