Credit Reporting news and trends

DailyPay Unveils Financial Wellness Tool for Credit Monitoring
Personal Finance // September 16, 2024

DailyPay has debuted “Credit Health,” a tool to help users monitor their financial wellness. Announced Monday (Sept. 16), the offering is integrated into the earned wage access (EWA) company’s app, letting users stay on top of their credit status. The company said the need for...

Cash Flow-Based Underwriting Adds Real-Time Context to FICO Score
Loans // May 24, 2024

The FICO score — what we might think of as the general “shorthand” for lending — was created back in 1989. In the decades since, and now as we’re on the cusp of the middle of the 2020s, relying on the triple-digit number to crystallize...

CFPB Targeting ‘Lack of Competition’ in Credit Reporting, Credit Scores
Consumer Finance // May 20, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to improve “competition, choice and affordability” in credit reporting costs and other mortgage closing costs. In prepared remarks for a speech at a Mortgage Bankers Association conference, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said Monday (May 20) that the agency is doing so at a time when mortgage lenders...

TransUnion Faces Allegations of Violations of Fair Credit Reporting Act
CFPB // October 12, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have taken enforcement actions against consumer reporting company TransUnion, alleging multiple violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The actions focus on TransUnion’s rental screening subsidiary, TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions, which the regulators said failed to ensure the...

Interviews & Exclusives
On Capitol Hill, Credit Bureau CEOs Say Reporting Changes Are In the Air

February 27, 2019
Lawmakers grilled the heads of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, calling the credit reporting a “broken” system — and new legislation introduced this week has some far-reaching changes. In the meantime, the CEOs said, proactive measures to address shortcomings — not just breaches — are in the works. One strategy: Expand credit access by expanding data collected and used beyond traditional scoring methods.

Quick Reads
Nova Credit to Supply Consumer-Permissioned Cash Flow Data to SoFi

October 15, 2024
Digital financial services provider SoFi will leverage credit infrastructure and analytics firm Nova Credit’s consumer-permissioned data and analytics solution, Cash Atlas, to bolster its loan underwriting. With Cash Atlas, SoFi will be able to use cash flow data to gain a real-time and granular view of a consumer’s financial health and generate a more complete […]

DailyPay Unveils Financial Wellness Tool for Credit Monitoring

September 16, 2024
DailyPay has debuted “Credit Health,” a tool to help users monitor their financial wellness. Announced Monday (Sept. 16), the offering is integrated into the earned wage access (EWA) company’s app,...

CFPB Targeting ‘Lack of Competition’ in Credit Reporting, Credit Scores

May 20, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to improve “competition, choice and affordability” in credit reporting costs and other mortgage closing costs. In prepared remarks for a speech at a Mortgage Bankers Association conference, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said...

TransUnion Faces Allegations of Violations of Fair Credit Reporting Act

October 12, 2023
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have taken enforcement actions against consumer reporting company TransUnion, alleging multiple violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The actions focus on TransUnion’s...