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VantageScore Takes Issue With WSJ Story On Credit Scoring Sector

VantageScore Takes Issue With WSJ Story On Credit Scoring Sector
VantageScore Takes Issue With WSJ Story On Credit Scoring Sector
February 07, 2017  |  Consumer Finance

VantageScore Solutions, the developer of the VantageScore credit scoring model, said Monday (Feb. 6) a recent Wall Street Journal story on the credit scoring industry...

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What ‘Unscorable’ Consumers Really Look Like
What ‘Unscorable’ Consumers Really Look Like
December 08, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

While credit scores, or the lack thereof, tell lenders a lot about consumers, the traditional credit scoring models don’t always provide a clear picture of...

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How Model Validation Helps Credit Scoring Evolve With The Times
How Model Validation Helps Credit Scoring Evolve With The Times
December 02, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

Promoting transparency in credit scores sounds like the ideal, but putting it into action is a whole other story. But as consumer behaviors and lending...

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VantageScore And The Public Record
VantageScore And The Public Record
August 24, 2016  |  Payment Methods

The three credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and Equifax), under a program called the National Consumer Assistance Plan (NCAP) are looking for ways to improve...

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Looking At Creditworthiness, Backwards And Forwards
Looking At Creditworthiness, Backwards And Forwards
June 03, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Determining who represents good credit risk – and who doesn’t – is as much art as science for card issuers and other lenders. VantageScore 3.0...

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Why Credit Score Volatility Isn’t All Bad
Why Credit Score Volatility Isn’t All Bad
April 07, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

The question is not just if credit scores will change, but how much will they change, and in what situations are these fluctuations actually meaningful...

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Credit Scoring’s Ten-Year Scorecard
Credit Scoring’s Ten-Year Scorecard
March 31, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

Ten years ago, the three national credit bureaus got together to start a challenger to credit scoring’s dominant player. Out of that, VantageScore was born,...

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Scoring The Unscorable
Scoring The Unscorable
February 15, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

Creditworthy but unscorable. What gives? Old credit scoring models, for one. VantageScore sat down with PYMNTS to explain how using new credit scoring models can...

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The Consumer Credit Market Boom
The Consumer Credit Market Boom
December 03, 2015  |  Financial Inclusion

Six billion and counting. According to VantageScore, that’s how many credit scores generated by its model have been used by card issuers and other industry...

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