Credit Score vs. Credit Report: Understand the Key Differences

Discover how credit scores and credit reports differ, why each is important, and how they impact your financial life.
ConsumerAffairs

Credit Score vs. Credit Reports: What’s the Difference?

When you’re applying for a loan, credit card or lease, knowing the difference between your credit score and credit report can give you some insight into how your lender or landlord views you from a ...

Why Credit Scores Don’t Always Match and Which One Really Matters Most to You

Your score is constantly changing because lenders regularly provide new information about you to the credit bureaus. For ...
Finextra

TransUnion taps Credit Sesame for direct-to-consumer credit scores in the US

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. This new offering is expected to enable TransUnion to more fully serve ...
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TransUnion & Credit Sesame to launch new education and monitoring offering

Your customers who have soft credit profiles could benefit from a new program from TransUnion enabled by its collaboration with Credit Sesame. Announced last week ...

What you need to know about building and maintaining a healthy credit score

The relevance of a strong credit score is that it’s one of the key components used by lending institutions to evaluate ...
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TransUnion: Credit scores dropping by 60 points on average because of delinquent federal student loans

The pool of consumers potentially falling into the subprime credit tier might grow by nearly 6 million individuals based on the trends connected with student loans recently highlighted by TransUnion.
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Credit Report vs Credit Score: What’s the Difference?

Your bank app may let you check your credit score for free. But how is that different from your credit report? They are both measures of your financial health, but your score is a three-digit number ...