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Are You Ready for the Credit Bureaus to Estimate Your Income?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Reserve is allowing lenders to use income estimates made by credit bureaus in their decisions to acc[...] read more »
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Update: FICO 08

Once again the Fair Issac Corporation is “upgrading” a new and improved system to rate consumer default probability. The system set to debut in the second quarter of of ‘09 with at least Equifax being on board Transunion and Experian no commitment a read more »
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How I had an 800 FICO score at age 24

The credit bureaus weight five different factors or areas to determine your credit score and credit worthiness. This post outlines the five areas and[...] read more »
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