Hitting an 850 credit score is impressive, but is it necessary? Learn what it means and how it can impact your life -- or not ...

Financial analytics company FICO has announced two new scores that incorporate buy now, pay later (BNPL) loan data for the first time.

FICO will begin factoring Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) loans into scoring models, and consumer credit scores can suffer as a ...

Unpaid bills and fines can hurt your credit standing, and no unpaid bill or fine is too small to forget about and let grow ...

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 ...

A top housing finance regulator announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would allow lenders to use the traditional FICO ...

The FICO Score 8 you may get from one credit bureau, however, may vary from the scores you get from the others. That’s because not all lenders report to all three bureaus.

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

There are base models, such as FICO Score 8, 9 and 10, which range from 300 to 850. Additionally, FICO has industry specific credit scores for auto lenders and card issuers that range from 250 to 900.

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

Although VantageScore credit scores have been around for about 15 years, the FICO Score is still the preferred choice of most lenders. In the U.S., lenders use FICO Scores in 90% of lending decisions.

FICO is tweaking its all-important formula. Scores will rise for about 40 million people and drop for another 40 million. By Tara Siegel Bernard Your credit score — that all-important passport ...