FHFA Director William Pulte said that lenders may now use VantageScore 4.0, an alternative to the FICO score, while assessing ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator says VantageScore can now be used to underwrite home loans, weighing on FICO’s stock.

With BNPL loans exploding in popularity, a change is coming to credit scoring that shows just how mainstream they have become ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair ...

For years, lenders have used only the FICO score, from Fair Isaac Corp. — a metric that generally excludes such things as ...

You want that new computer, but your bank account says, “Try again next month.” So, you click “Pay in 4,” and boom, problem ...

Many consumers have been using buy now, pay later payment options like Affirm, PayPal Credit or Klarna – surveys put usage at ...

Not sure how a FICO score vs. credit score affects you? Find out which one matters most for credit approvals and interest rates.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of millions of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ loans will soon affect credit scores for millions of Americans ...

Both FICO and VantageScore issue a credit score between 300 and 850 to potential borrowers with the goal of predicting the likelihood that a person will fall behind on debt repayments.

After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money ...

Pay Later gains traction, experts warn that rising defaults could hurt consumers’ credit scores, stressing the need for ...