There are a variety of factors that go into your credit score, including on-time payments, the amount of your available ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the company behind the widely recognized FICO score, to ...

Payment history (35%): The largest chunk of your credit score is based on how good you are about making on-time payments to your credit cards, store cards, loans, mortgage and other accounts.

Over half of respondents to a new U.S. News survey – about 53% – don't know FICO scores are the scores lenders look at to determine your creditworthiness. In fact, about 44% confuse FICO with ...

FICO launched two credit scores that incorporate consumers' record of paying back buy now, pay later loans, the analytics ...

Mortgage lenders typically evaluate a borrower’s creditworthiness using FICO Scores 2, 4, and 5. These scores are the ones used by Experian, Equifax and TransUnion — the three major credit ...