A premium credit card could be your gateway to lower interest rates, cheap hotels, and airport lounges - but what credit score do you need to actually get one?

As you get familiar with your credit, you’ll quickly realize multiple types of scores exist. Although both FICO scores and credit scores exist, understanding which one lenders use can be helpful.

CIC Credit has announced that it will participate in the FICO Mortgage Direct License Program, a new initiative from global analytics software provider. The program streamlines score access, enabling ...

Buying a car or applying for credit? To check your creditworthiness, lenders will look into your credit scores. You’re likely familiar with your FICO Score, but what’s your VantageScore and why is it ...

The way consumer credit scores are calculated has changed. The Fair Isaac Corp. -– creator of the FICO score -– announced on Jan. 29 that their new scoring model for determining credit scores, dubbed ...

Kailey Hagen has been writing about small businesses and finance for almost 10 years. Articles she's written for The Motley Fool have been syndicated to USA Today, MSN, and Yahoo! Finance. She ...

Credit scores existed for decades before 1989. What changed that year was the introduction of the FICO score, the first generic credit scoring system. Previously, lenders developed and used their own ...

Fair Isaac (FICO), also known as FICO, said on Wednesday that Xactus is the first verifications technology provider to ...