FICO shook up the credit reporting world Thursday with plans to sell credit scores more directly to mortgage lenders. Why it ...

FICO score, created by Fair Isaac, is a US credit scoring system used by nearly 90% of lenders to evaluate a borrower’s ...

As of Monday, the U.S. Department of Education is restarting "involuntary collections" on federal student loans that are in default, which may seriously damage the credit scores of millions of ...

New Federal Reserve research reveals that identity theft victims who use extended fraud alerts often see significant and ...

Student loan borrowers nationwide are waking up to a harsh new reality: Their credit scores are plunging, sometimes by as much as 200 points. As the extended Covid-era protections end, millions of ...

Millions of Americans with federal student loans are facing renewed pressure as changes to loan servicing policies could soon begin impacting credit reports. After a nearly three-year freeze on ...

ATLANTA — Paying rent is the biggest monthly expense for thousands of families in metro Atlanta — but many don’t realize it could also be one of the easiest ways to build credit. A recent survey ...

As the U.S. Department of Education restarts collections on federal student loans that are in default, some student loan borrowers are seeing an instant hit to their credit scores, according to a new ...