Natalie Campisi is a senior journalist who covers personal finance, balancing timely news with in-depth enterprise reporting. Her mission is to make complex financial issues clear and accessible for ...
FICO and VantageScore credit scores are the two most common types of personal credit scores. Business credit scores use ...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) recent adoption of the use of VantageScore 4.0 as an alternative to Classic FICO for mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has sparked intense ...
Since he joined the FHFA, Pulte has pursued changes to the current credit score requirements by the government-sponsored enterprises. His comments were directed to Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO), which ...
Following FHFA announcement Tuesday, doubts arise regarding potential changes that may be needed to move to VantageScore credit scoring After Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William J.
The average VantageScore credit score was 701 in October, within a scale of 300 to 850. That's steady from a month earlier, and down just one point from October 2024. VantageScore CEO Silvio Tavares ...
This op-ed was originally published in National Mortgage News. VantageScore says it’s building the future of credit scoring. But based on our analysis, the foundation it’s building on is shaky at best ...
Lenders Expected to Originate Up to $1 Trillion in New, High-Quality Mortgages Up to Five Million Prospective New Buyers to Qualify for Homeownership Policy Change Reiterates FHFA Commitment to ...
After a 25-year monopoly of credit scoring home loans for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, FICO finally has some competition. VantageScore, owned by the three major credit bureaus Experian, ...
Along with slowing originations, the latest edition of CreditGauge by VantageScore showed delinquencies throughout the credit market are on the rise. Analysts reported on Tuesday that overall credit ...
Americans now have a new credit option to use when applying for a mortgage, and it allows them to use their rent payments as a qualifying factor. President Donald Trump's administration announced this ...
You can make your own judgements about the state of the credit market based on October data from Cox Automotive and VantageScore. In October, Cox Automotive reported, the Dealertrack Credit ...