Your FICO Score and the Credit Industry

In FICO score of Editor (December 13, 2008 2:30 am)

Do you understand your FICO score? When your credit history is reported it is shown as a three-digit number. It’s important that you know what that number is, particularly if you plan to use credit to make purchases. This three-digit number is known as a FICO score. FICO stands for the Fair Isaac and Company which began credit scoring sometime in the 1950’s. Their strategy was to use 30 different factors to determine risk. The three major credit bureaus, Trans Union, Experian and Equifax, use FICO scores when making credit reports.

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