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Key Factors Determinig Your Credit Score

If you are interested in getting your credit under control, you will need information about your credit score and about how your credit score is calculated.


What Determines Your Fico Score?
 
 
Payment history
Amounts owed
Length of credit history
New credit
Types of credit
Inquiries
 

Factors Affecting Your FICO Score
 
 
Understanding FICO Credit Scores
 
Positive factors
Negative factors
What’s not considered in a credit score?
  How Fico Credit Scores are calculated
Key factors in calculating credit scores

  

  




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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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