A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.

Your credit score is the key to your financial future: It can determine whether you get approved for a credit card, car loan or mortgage, and what interest rate you'll pay. In some cases, your score ...

WhatsApp's mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone's phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they're on the service, and ...

What are business credit bureaus and how do they work? Financing a young company often depends on a record most founders don’t even realize exists: their business credit file. These files are created ...

Financing a young company often depends on a record most founders don't even realize exists: their business credit file. These files are created and maintained by business credit bureaus, which are ...

Bill McColl has 25+ years of experience as a senior producer and writer for TV, radio, and digital media leading teams of anchors, reporters, and editors in creating news broadcasts, covering some of ...

On Thursday, Fair Isaac unveiled its new direct-to-lender program with two main new options. The first option is for a lender to pay the typical $4.95 per FICO score and another $33 fee if the scored ...

Fair Isaac, known as FICO, is aiming to cut costs for the mortgage industry as it looks to bypass Equifax, TransUnion and Experian FICO says it plans to license its credit scores for mortgages ...