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Stories & Articles
- How to lower your credit card interest rate
- Coronavirus stimulus legislation doesn’t suspend negative credit reporting
- How credit scores affect interest rates
- Can you get a credit card without a job?
- Guide to the Self Visa Credit Card: A unique credit-building product
- Paying rent with a credit card
- How to protect your credit during the coronavirus crisis
- Senators introduce legislation that would suspend negative credit reporting
- What is a fair credit score?
- DoJ investigating FICO for potential antitrust violations
- How to check a small business’s credit report and credit score
- Does getting preapproved for a credit card hurt your credit score?
- What is a good APR for a credit card?
- What is a rapid rescore, and how can it raise my credit score?
- How many credit cards is too many?
- Which credit scores do mortgage lenders use?
- How to use your tax refund to boost your credit score
- How to add an authorized user to a Chase credit card
- How to dispute an error in your Experian credit report
- What’s the difference between statement balance and current balance?
- What can I do if bankruptcy is not an option?
- Here’s what you need to know about military credit checks
- Is it possible to remove inquiries from your credit report?
- Best credit cards after bankruptcy
- How long does a bankruptcy stay on your credit report?
- How do credit cards work?
- How long does it take to build business credit?
- Do tax liens affect your credit score?
- Will applying for a credit card by phone help my chances of approval?
- The 3 national credit bureaus: How Equifax, Experian and TransUnion work
- How FICO’s new credit score changes will affect you
- New FICO 10 scoring system incorporates trended data
- How to remove negative items from your credit report
- Hard inquiries vs. soft inquiries: What they are, how they affect your credit
- What is a good credit score?
- Do balance transfers hurt your credit score?
- How to get a business credit card
- The definitive guide to debunking credit score myths
- What credit score is needed to buy a house?
- Prequalified vs. preapproved: What’s the difference?
- 10 tips to improve your credit score in 2020
- ‘This is how I improved my credit score’: Consumers share their tips
- 13 bad credit habits you need to break now
- What to do if your holiday shopping tanked your credit score
- How can I get a closed card account removed from my credit report?
- Americans resolve to boost their credit scores in 2020, study shows
- Buying a car? You might want to look at your credit first
- Americans’ credit scores are at an eight-year high, Experian’s latest study shows
- Can my credit score recover from a late payment in time to close on a home?
- When should you get your child a credit card?
- We still don’t know a lot about how credit card applications are evaluated
- My length of credit history fell to zero after my card was closed. Can I fix that?
- Which debt to pay off first: Credit card, cash advance or personal loan?
- Digital transformation is poised to make credit underwriting easier and faster
- Could I ask a lender not to report a paid loan to credit bureaus?
- How can I remove an old joint credit card account from my credit report?
- Two? Seven? Twenty? How many credit cards should I have?
- Can a credit card issuer garnish your Social Security benefits?
- Millennials worry more than older generations about their credit
- A collection agency is pursuing me for an old debt I don’t recognize. What to do?
- Best and worst states for managing money: South Dakota is No. 1
- What happens when you miss a credit card payment?
- Credit cards that offer free credit scores
- Experian’s new credit score considers trended data, professional licenses
- Millennials value credit scores over social media followers, study shows
- My card was closed. Will it be reopened as a current account, or a new one?
- 9 tips for sticking to a holiday budget
- Alternative data looks beyond traditional scores to extend credit, but risks abound
- It’s now easier for immigrants to get American Express cards
- Consequences of stopping payments on a credit card
- Building a mortgage-worthy credit profile
- What are the benefits of using credit cards?
- Can my old card debt result in a lien on a home that’s in my spouse’s name?
- Is it safe to give Experian Boost access to my bank account information?
- How to buy a used car
- My unpaid student loans fell off my credit report. Do I still have to pay?
- How important is it to know your partner’s credit score?
- Will my late payments fall off my credit report if I close my card?
- What authorized users need to know about balance transfers
- Credit guide for military members and their families
- Will a high card balance hurt my score if I pay it off right away?
- Buying a car with no credit: 6 options to consider
- I have 30 credit cards. Will closing some of them hurt my credit score?
- 4 in 10 Americans have credit scores of 720 or higher, CFPB says
- I requested higher credit limits, and here’s what happened
- 8 ways seniors can build and keep good credit in retirement
- My bad credit is on the road to recovery. Can I apply for a mortgage?
- Affordable cards that even consumers with average credit can get
- Why does a hard inquiry hurt your credit score?
- FICO: Average credit score reaches all-time high of 706
- How to apply for a credit card and get approved
- FTC advises taking free credit monitoring over cash in Equifax settlement
- 10 things newlyweds need to know (about credit)
- Will it hurt my credit score if I never use my credit card?
- How often should you use your credit card?
- I’m disabled and I have $10,000 in card debt. Should I consider debt settlement?
- 5 credit mistakes expats should avoid
- Equifax to offer free credit reports and scores to consumers every month
- Debt is a dating red flag, and so we delay bringing it up – or lie about it
- Business credit monitoring services: What they are, how they work; are they worth it?