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Credit Score Basics

If you are interested in getting your financial house in order, it is important for you to have a grasp of the various elements of your credit report, including that all important credit score.


Understanding Credit Scores
 
 
What is a credit score?
Credit rating and credit score
History of credit scores
Benefits of credit scores
 

Importance of Credit Scores
 
 
Why credit score is important?
Why you should check your credit score
When your scores are not availalbe
 
 
 
Three-Digit Number Crunching
 
  Credit score range
Credit score statistical data
How to interpret your credit score
Credit scores change continuously.
 
Credit Score and Your Loan
 
  Credit score and loan
How lenders use credit scores
Credit score and interest rates
Instant/Quick credit approval

Credit Bureaus
 
 
Good Score and Bad Score
 
Credit report and credit score
Credit bureaus
  What is a good credit score?
What is a bad credit score?
What a good credit means to you.
What a bad credit means to you.

Different Types of Credit Scores
 
 
Credit Score and Insurance
 
Kinds of credit sores
Why credit scores are different
Equifax credit score
Experian credit sore
Trans Union Credit Score
Which credit score should you get?
Vantage Score
  How credit score affects your insurance premiums

  

  




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Latest News

4/23/08

A credit inquiry typically lowers your score by five points or less. Credit inquiries reduce credit scores because lenders believe that multiple inquiries are associated with high risk of default.

 

 

1/20/08

With the introduction of the VantageScore in addition to the FICO score, consumers are confused about the credit score range and about the credit scoring in general. Here are the main differences between the two credit scoring systems.

11/28/07

Zopa Ltd., a United Kingdom player in the person-to-person online lending market, is starting operations in the U.S. where it will join a handful of other companies, including Prosper Marketplace Inc.'s Prosper.com, that have popularized the market in recent years.

 

6/25/07

Equifax Inc. emphasized that VantageScore(sm) and the Equifax Risk Score 3.0 are not - and never have been - impacted by the authorized user manipulation. Authorized user information is excluded in calculating both VantageScore and the Equifax Risk Score 3.0.

 

6/18/07

Although Fair Isaac Corp., the Minneapolis company that created the FICO score doesn't give out many details about the changes, the company spokesman said there will be more segments in their scoring model.

6/11/07

As credit scores take more important role in many parts of our lives, more ideas are popping up everyday to boost our credit scores. Recently, some borrowers with low credit scores are turning to a fast-growing business on the Internet: “Credit Renting.”

6/8/07

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of two large insurers, limiting the circumstances under which companies must tell customers their credit ratings are affecting the amount they pay.

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