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Entries Tagged as 'Fair Isaac'
Free Credit Scores Included in Financial Reform
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Credit Bureaus and Scores
Tags: Credit Reports·Credit Scores·Fair Isaac·FICO score·financial reform bill·free credit reports·Free Credit Scores·MSN Money
How Much Credit is Too Much?
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Credit Cards, Credit Reports, Mortgages
When starting your credit history from scratch, rebuilding from a bad financial period in your life, or if you have long established credit history, I get this question all the time, “How much credit is too much”? Or “How many credit cards should I have to have the best credit?” This is often a difficult question to answer, due to the black box nature of Fair Isaac’s FICO credit scoring model.
Tags: Car Loans·Credit Cards·Credit Score·credit scoring·debt ratios·Fair Isaac·FICO score·Mortgages·number of accounts·Payment History·too much credit·total available credit
FICO.com suing “Big 3″ Credit Bureaus for Trademark Infringement
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Credit Bureaus and Scores, Legal Stuff
In what looks to be a battle of Goliaths, Fair Issac’s FICO.com brought suit against Experian, TransUnion, Equifax and VantageScore for trademark infringement, anti-trust unfair competition, passing-off claims and false advertising. Recently, United States District Court in Minneapolis dismissed the antitrust and false advertising claims asserted by FICO against Experian, Trans Union, Equifax and VantageScore. [...]
Tags: anti-trust·Equifa·Expxerian·Fair Isaac·FICO·lawsuit·press release·trademark infringement·transunion·unfair comepetition
