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How to Use Alternative Data to Build Your Credit Report

Titan Consulting

Rent, home payments, utilities such as gas, water, electric, and even things like cable or other on-time payment history can be used by credit bureaus to create a reliable credit score from which they can underwrite credit. What lenders use alternative credit data to grant credit?

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Does Debt Relief Hurt Your Credit?

Credit Corp

Credit.com’s free credit report card tool can help you better understand your current creditworthiness and which factors you need to work on to help you improve your standing. Counselors may offer free or low-cost consultations and educational materials.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

The proposed rule would require lenders to assess a borrower’s ability to repay a PACE loan and would provide a framework for how these loans will be treated under the Truth in Lending Act. PACE loans, secured by a property tax lien on the borrower’s home, are often promoted as a way to finance clean energy improvements, such as solar panels.

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CFPB Consent Orders with Consumer Reporting Agencies Focus on Marketing Practices not Credit Reporting

Consumer Financial Services Law

Instead, the orders are focused on the CRAs’ marketing of credit related reporting services. According to the Consent Orders, the CRAs marketed and sold consumers credit scores and credit related products. Equifax Order, ¶ 23; see also TransUnion Order, ¶ 29. Compliance Management.

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Experian Credit Score vs. FICO Score

Credit Corp

Lenders use a multitude of scoring methods to determine your creditworthiness and make decisions about whether or not to give you credit. It gathers credit reports from the three major credit bureaus and analyzes anonymous consumer data to generate a scoring model specific to each bureau.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

Among other provisions under the stipulated order, the for-profit school must request that consumer reporting agencies delete the debt from consumerscredit reports. The FTC also alleges that the for-profit school encouraged students to use income-share agreements to pay for the school. For more information, click here.