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FICO score |
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FICO score. Created by the Fair Isaac Corporation, FICO is the best-known credit scoring system in the United States. Based on the information in your credit report, your FICO score is calculated using complex, proprietary formulas that weigh the amount of debt you carry relative to your available credit, the timeliness of your payments, the type of debt you carry, and a great many other factors to assign you a credit score between 300 and 850. The top 20% of credit profiles receive a score over 780 and the lowest 20% receive scores under 620. Lenders use your credit score to assess your credit risk, or the likelihood that you will default on a loan and offer the best -- or lowest -- interest rates to credit applicants with the highest scores. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) prohibits factors such as race, color, gender, religion, national origin, or marital status from being considered in any credit scoring system, including FICO. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| s three-digit FICO score most likely comes to mind. which tabulates the famous FICO score named for it, found that financial problems actually create more stress than infidelity. Many lenders reserve their most favorable quotes of rates and fees for applicants in the upper FICO score ranges -- 700 and above. |
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