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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
 
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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 and Your Loan
 
Credit score range
Credit score statistical data
How to interpret your credit score
Credit scores change continuously.
  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

7/15/10

Figures provided by FICO Inc. show that 25.5 percent of consumers — nearly 43.4 million people — now have a credit score of 599 or below, marking them as poor risks for lenders. It's unlikely they will be able to get credit cards, auto loans or mortgages under the tighter lending standards banks now use.

 

 

7/17/09

A Home Loan Modification could affect your credit score depending on how far behind you are and the kind of mortgage loan modification you’ll be granted.

 

 

7/8/09

In this recession, many consumers find their credit as the credit crunch continue to take its toll. Banks and credit-card companies hit by charge-offs are tightening up their lending standards.

 

 

6/15/09

As the recession drags on, more people find their all-important credit scores slipping. Here are some suggestions what you can do about it

 

 

6/10/09

Fair Isaac Corp., maker of the popular FICO credit score, is rolling out its new-and-improved scoring model, dubbed FICO 08, with Equifax.

 

 

5/19/09

Recently, many consumers have experienced their credit card company decreased their credit line. Card issuers are tightening the screws on consumers

 

 

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