About credit reports
Your credit report contains your credit history as reported to the credit reporting agency by lenders who have extended credit to you. The information in your credit report is also used to generate credit scores.
What’s in a credit report
Your credit report lists what types of credit you use, the length of time your accounts have been open, and whether you've paid your bills on time. It tells lenders how much credit you've used and whether you're seeking new sources of credit. It gives lenders a broader view of your credit history than do other data sources, such as a bank's own customer data.
A credit report also includes information on where you live, and whether you’ve been sued or arrested, or have filed for bankruptcy.
About your credit score
Your credit score influences the credit that’s available to you and the terms (interest rate, etc.) that lenders offer you. It’s a vital part of your credit health.
When you apply for credit – whether for a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage – lenders want to know what risk they'd take by loaning money to you. When lenders order your credit report, they can also buy a credit score that’s based on the information in the report. A credit score helps lenders evaluate your credit report because it is a number that summarizes your credit risk, based on a snapshot of your credit report at a particular point in time.
Your credit report contains your credit history as reported to the credit reporting agency by lenders who have extended credit to you. The information in your credit report is also used to generate credit scores.
What’s in a credit report
Your credit report lists what types of credit you use, the length of time your accounts have been open, and whether you've paid your bills on time. It tells lenders how much credit you've used and whether you're seeking new sources of credit. It gives lenders a broader view of your credit history than do other data sources, such as a bank's own customer data.
A credit report also includes information on where you live, and whether you’ve been sued or arrested, or have filed for bankruptcy.
About your credit score
Your credit score influences the credit that’s available to you and the terms (interest rate, etc.) that lenders offer you. It’s a vital part of your credit health.
When you apply for credit – whether for a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage – lenders want to know what risk they'd take by loaning money to you. When lenders order your credit report, they can also buy a credit score that’s based on the information in the report. A credit score helps lenders evaluate your credit report because it is a number that summarizes your credit risk, based on a snapshot of your credit report at a particular point in time.
Understanding Your
Credit Score
The importance of a credit score from a credit report
Your credit report reveals many aspects of your borrowing activities. All pieces of information should be considered in relationship to other pieces of information. The ability to quickly, fairly and consistently consider all this information is what makes credit scoring so useful.
Credit reporting agencies
There are three credit bureaus: Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.
They maintain files on millions of borrowers. Lenders making credit decisions buy credit reports on their prospects, applicants and customers from the credit reporting agencies.
Lenders and other businesses use the information in your credit report to evaluate your applications for credit, loans, insurance, or renting a home.
How your credit report is maintained
TransUnion, Equifax and Experian are the three bureaus that maintain credit reports. They issue credit reports to creditors, insurers and others businesses as permitted under law.
When you apply for any new line of credit – for example, a new credit card - the creditor requests a copy of credit report from one or more of the credit bureaus. The creditor will evaluate your credit report, a credit score, or other information you provide (such as income or debt information) to determine your credit worthiness, as well as your interest rate. If you’re approved, that new card – called a tradeline, will be included in your credit report and updated about every 30 days.
Tens of thousands of credit grantors – retailers, credit card issuers, banks, finance companies, credit unions, etc. – send updates to each of the credit reporting bureaus, usually once a month. These updates include information about how their customers use and pay their accounts.
Accessing your credit report
Your credit report is compiled when you or your lender request it. It contains information that is supplied by lenders, by you and by court records.
In order to obtain your credit report, you must provide your name, address, Social Security number, and date of birth. If you’ve moved within the last two years, you should include your previous address. To protect the security of your personal information, you may be asked a series of questions that only you would know, like your monthly mortgage payment.
Identity theft
Every 2 seconds, someone becomes a victim of identity theft. That means by the time you finish reading this sentence, the next victim could be you. Your best defense starts with with knowing what information is on your credit report.
Your credit report reveals many aspects of your borrowing activities. All pieces of information should be considered in relationship to other pieces of information. The ability to quickly, fairly and consistently consider all this information is what makes credit scoring so useful.
Credit reporting agencies
There are three credit bureaus: Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.
They maintain files on millions of borrowers. Lenders making credit decisions buy credit reports on their prospects, applicants and customers from the credit reporting agencies.
Lenders and other businesses use the information in your credit report to evaluate your applications for credit, loans, insurance, or renting a home.
How your credit report is maintained
TransUnion, Equifax and Experian are the three bureaus that maintain credit reports. They issue credit reports to creditors, insurers and others businesses as permitted under law.
When you apply for any new line of credit – for example, a new credit card - the creditor requests a copy of credit report from one or more of the credit bureaus. The creditor will evaluate your credit report, a credit score, or other information you provide (such as income or debt information) to determine your credit worthiness, as well as your interest rate. If you’re approved, that new card – called a tradeline, will be included in your credit report and updated about every 30 days.
Tens of thousands of credit grantors – retailers, credit card issuers, banks, finance companies, credit unions, etc. – send updates to each of the credit reporting bureaus, usually once a month. These updates include information about how their customers use and pay their accounts.
Accessing your credit report
Your credit report is compiled when you or your lender request it. It contains information that is supplied by lenders, by you and by court records.
In order to obtain your credit report, you must provide your name, address, Social Security number, and date of birth. If you’ve moved within the last two years, you should include your previous address. To protect the security of your personal information, you may be asked a series of questions that only you would know, like your monthly mortgage payment.
Identity theft
Every 2 seconds, someone becomes a victim of identity theft. That means by the time you finish reading this sentence, the next victim could be you. Your best defense starts with with knowing what information is on your credit report.
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