Here's a look
at my credit score trending report.
Not exact matches
Bern Lefson, a certified mentor
at SCORE, the nonprofit dedicated to helping small businesses that is supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration, says there is a consistent
trend of consumers carrying less cash and making more transactions with
credit cards.
Read more about why
credit scoring models that use
trended data alone can't help open the
credit box
at: https://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/41998-can-
scoring-
trended-data-help-lenders-expand-
credit-access
According to Ted Rossman, public relations director
at Bankrate, «We offer a free VantageScore each month as well as
score analysis (a complete understanding of what makes up your
credit score and the top four things you can focus on to improve it),
trending information (graphs that show changes to your
credit score over time), a timeline (showing your key
credit milestones) and comparisons (including
credit report changes that could have impacted your
credit score and help identifying fraud).
«None of the
credit bureau - based risk
scoring systems [used by the mortgage industry] consider
at this time series /
trended data, but if you and I have this conversation next year
at the same time, I could almost guarantee you that we would have heard about one of them starting to use it,» said Ulzheimer, whose previous experience includes work
at FICO and
credit bureau Equifax.
Eric explains that a
credit score is a number between 350 and 900 — 900 being perfect — that is constantly changing depending upon the information being reported and financial
trends at that time.
One of the ways I make sure to continue the upward
trend is to check my
credit scores at least a handful of times each and every year.
In my humble opinion, looking
at trends elsewhere,
credit score is only going to increase in power in India.
While the
trended data may improve your chances of getting approved for that
credit card or loan, since it'll look
at consistently good
credit rather than recent bad
credit, it may not do much to boost your
credit score in the short term.