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

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has decided to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score for borrower applications.

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

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the company behind the widely recognized FICO score, to ...

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

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The FICO score inventor continues its war with the new administration's FHFA Director Bill Pulte. Pulte said this week that ...

FICO is the first major credit score provider to incorporate BNPL information into its credit scores, the company said in a ...

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

BNPL companies like Afterpay and Klarna will begin reporting users’ loans and payments to FICO, the company behind the most ...

FICO uses multiple scoring models, but, traditionally, they have looked at a consumer’s data as one snapshot in time. In 2020, however, FICO added a new model that looks at balance activity over ...