credit scores

• FICO Competitor Steps Up With New Improvement

  By David Morrison  |  March 12, 2013

  VantageScore, creation of three major bureaus, announces answer to FICO's new pact with FactorTrust. Both eye underserved lending market.

• Financially Underserved Data Important to New Scores: FICO/FactorTrust

  By David Morrison  |  March 11, 2013

  Credit score specialist and payment data aggregator get together in new partnership to help serve the underserved.

• Greater Abbeville Offers Second Chance to Locals With Credit Issues

  By Zachary Galasi  |  July 13, 2012

  South Carolina credit union creates Fresh Start Account program for those with credit score hiccups.

• Study: Credit Union Members Willing to Pay for Identity Theft Alerts, Credit Score Reporting

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  May 23, 2012

  Consumers rank identity theft alerts, and credit reporting high among services, and they’re willing to pay around $3 or $4 a month to use them.

• Credit Score Ban on Auto Insurance in Mass.

  December 11, 2011

  A bill to ban credit-based insurance scoring in underwriting private passenger automobile insurance was signed into law in Massachusetts.

• New Credit Score Service at NorthCountry, A+

  By Marc Rapport  |  December 11, 2011

  A new, free credit score service that resides behind the online banking logon has been launched by the $342 million NorthCountry FCU of South Burlington, Vt., and the $877 million A+ FCU in Austin, Texas.

• FICO Says It Cracked the Strategic Defaulter Code

  By David Morrison  |  May 4, 2011

  Credit unions servicing a significant number of mortgages might benefit from a new tool to help determine which mortgage holders were at the highest risk for choosing to default, FICO said.

• CUNA Urges Delay in New Credit Score Reporting Rules

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 18, 2011

  CUNA cites compliance costs in asking Fed to delay new rules for disclosing scores when disclosing prices.