Category - Credit Scores

In case you didn’t know, Credit Sesame recently launched their referral program. If you refer 6 or more friends in any calendar month, Credit Sesame will send you a $150 amazon gift card. I was very critical of this referral... Read More →

A lot of card issuers have started offering free FICO scores to consumers under the FICO open access initiative. Citi was the last card issuer to tell consumers that they would be offering cardholders free access to their FICO scores... Read More →

On this blog we often talk about something called your average age of accounts (AAoA), we’ve had a few e-mail queries recently about how this is calculate and how it affects your credit score. Before we go any further it’s... Read More →

Citibank has announced that starting in January, 2015 they will provide their cardholders with access to their FICO score for free. Unfortunately this won’t be able to all Citibank cardholders, it will only be available to those... Read More →

Between now and November 16th, 2014 Wells Fargo customers can get access to their credit report and credit scores for free. Unfortunately it’s not possible to do this online and you’ll need visit a Wells Fargo branch and... Read More →

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has proposed a new bill titled “Fair Credit Reporting Improvement Act of 2014” which would make a number of changes to the data that credit bureaus are able to keep on consumers. Below are a... Read More →

Earlier this year we reported that FICO would be releasing the latest version of the FICO score, titled “FICO 9” this is the first major change to the FICO score since the release of FICO 2008 back in early 2009. When this... Read More →

PenFed is the latest credit card issuer to start offering it’s cardholders free access to their FICO scores. When you log into your account you should see a button that says “Your FICO score is ready! View it now” at... Read More →

I was doing some research updating our myFICO coupon page and noticed that a number of cash back portals have added the myFICO score watch product. Because the that promo page is one of the most visited pages on our site I thought... Read More →