How much debt you carry impacts 30% of your credit score. Before we had our mortgage, the two biggest debts I carried were my ...

Having a perfect credit score sounds really cool, but it's not all it's cracked up to be. Find out what having an 850 score ...

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

Most generations increased their average FICO Score by a single point in 2024, although Generation X, currently carrying more ...

FICO (NYSE:FICO), a global analytics software leader, today announced results for its first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2024. First Quarter Fiscal 2025 GAAP ...

Although Experian is the largest credit bureau in the U.S., TransUnion and Equifax are widely considered to be just as accurate and important. When it comes to credit scoring models, however, there is ...

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before ...

Your credit score is a key factor in getting a personal loan. If it's too low, some lenders may decide you pose too great a risk and decline to lend you money. However, it may still be possible to ...

you could see a drop in your credit score soon. Fair Isaac Corp., the creator of the FICO score, announced today, Jan. 23, the new FICO 10 model, which is expected to cause scores to fluctuate ...

women and men now share an average FICO credit score of 705. This is a 1-point increase for women from the second quarter of 2019 and about a 10-point increase for both groups since the second ...

Self reports your payment activity to the credit bureaus as you make your monthly payments. Payment history makes up 35% of your FICO score and 40% of your VantageScore, so the ability to show ...

Before you make any Conference Championship NFL picks, be sure to see the exact NFL score predictions from SportsLine expert Eric Cohen. Cohen, a SportsLine NFL expert and host of the Friday ...