Building a good FICO credit score is one of the best things you can do for your financial health. Here’s what your FICO score entails.

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Building a good FICO credit score is one of the best things you can do for your financial health. Here’s what your FICO score entails.

A credit score of 800 or above is considered excellent and has the same benefits as a perfect 850 score. Benefits of an 800 credit score include better credit offers, lower interest rates and ...

This technology is behind the FICO Score Estimator. Three new patents address the problem of fraud and were developed to be part of the FICO Falcon Fraud Manager system, which protects some 65% of the ...

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The FICO Score and VantageScore are methods of calculating your credit score. But they’re not exactly the same. We break down what you should know about the differences between the two.