myFICO has announced that starting yesterday users can access some additional features whenever they request an Experian product (single score or three in one). This is called Enhanced FICO® Score Explanation Report. This was developed... Read More →
Category - Credit Scores
[Expired] myFICO Promo Codes: April 2014
It's the start of a new month which means it's time for a new myFICO promo code round up. In this post we share promo codes that are confirmed as working for April 2014: Read More →
Credit Karma Agrees To A Settlement
Why Was Credit Karma Sued? Credit Karma was sued by the FTC because they disabled SSL for multiple years, which is a security certificate used to verify that data safe and secured from third parties. This leaves credit card data, social... Read More →
How Much Does A FICO Score Cost A Lender?
Myself and other consumer advocates have strongly been arguing for free FICO scores for all consumers (akin to the free credit reports consumers now receive under the FCRA). Earlier in March, FICO announced their latest scoring model... Read More →
FICO Announces The Next Variation Of The FICO Score: FICO Score9
FICO hasn’t made a significant change to it’s scoring algorithm since back in 2008 (although this wasn’t really pushed into effect until 2009). Anthony Spruave (Senior Consumer Credit specialist at FICO) says the... Read More →
Capital One To Offer Free Credit Scores To Their Customers
Capital One has announced that later this month their card holders will be able to access their credit scores for free. At this stage it’s not clear if this is part of the FICO score open access initiative or if Capital One will... Read More →
iQualifer Enters The Free Credit Monitoring Space
Yesterday, Ed DeShields (President & CEO of CE analytics, the makers of the CE credit score) let us know that while their credit score is no longer available through the free credit monitoring website Quizzle (they have since... Read More →
How Often Does The Free FICO Score From Barclays Update?
As most of you know by now (or should know by now) Barclays offers a free FICO score (the TU-08 classic variety) to most card holders (e.g Barclays Arrival). Card holders have had their scores updated and there didn’t seem to be... Read More →
[Expired] myFICO Promo Codes For March, 2014.
[March is now over, make sure you check out our working codes for April, 2014] [We receive a small commission if you sign up to the $4.95 trial of Score Watch. We do not receive a commission on any of the other promo codes. By using our... Read More →
FICO Score Vs FAKO Score: What’s The Difference?
If you spend any amount of time around the consumer credit community, you’ll hear the words FICO & FAKO a lot. But what’s the actual difference? FICO Score: a credit score that usually ranges between 300 to 850 (for the... Read More →
How Does Being An Authorized User Affect Your Credit?
People often have a lot of questions about how authorized users affect credit scores and credit reports. We decided to answer some of the most common questions out there. If I add somebody as an authorized user to my card, will their... Read More →
Quizzle Now Partners With Equifax
Quizzle recently announced that they were now offering VantageScore as their free credit score. As part of that change they also announced that they were replacing their partnership with Experian and now relying on Equifax for their... Read More →
Quizzle Now Uses VantageScore V3
Quizzle.com announced on the 21st of January, 2014 that they would be discontinuing use of the CE credit score and will now be using Version 3 of VantageScore. This is good news for Quizzle users, they now have access to a credit score... Read More →
[Expired] myFICO.com Promo Code – February 2014
Expired: These promo codes are now expired, sorry! Be sure to check out our main myFICO promo code page for up to date coupons. It’s the 1st of February, 2014 and that means it’s time for a new myFICO promo code that works... Read More →
[Expired] myFICO.com Promo Code For January, 2014.
We had a reader ask for a working promotional code for myFICO.com and realized we forgot to update it for January, 2014. This months promo code is as follows: E1401BDY20FST This will give you $4 off any individual FICO score, making... Read More →

