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  VantageScore: The New Standard in Credit Scoring
VantageScore Newsletter
September 2008

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Fitch Ratings Builds Model
on VantageScore
VantageScore reduces score variance across the CRCs
Q&A with Huxley Somerville, Fitch Ratings
From the CEO
  Fitch Ratings Builds Model for Loans scored on VantageScore
Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings is the first rating agency with the capability to evaluate and assign ratings to mortgage loans based on VantageScore, the only generic credit scoring model jointly developed by the three national credit reporting companies (CRCs – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). With VantageScore, the same algorithm is in place at all three CRCs giving a consistent interpretation of consumer credit files across all three major credit reporting companies.

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VantageScore reduces score variance across the CRCs
One of the chief benefits of VantageScore the ability to deliver a more consistent score across all three consumer reporting companies (CRCs — Equifax, Experian, TransUnion). This is accomplished by employing several innovative techniques:
  • During model development, the team's earliest task was to address disparities in the CRCs' individual definitions of credit characteristics, defined as consumers' payment and credit management behavioral data supplied by the lenders to the CRCs.

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Contact VantageScore:
VantageScore is sold and marketed only through individual licensing arrangements with the three major credit reporting companies (CRCs) - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Lenders and other commercial entities interested in learning more about VantageScore may contact one of the CRCs.



 
Q&A with Huxley Somerville, Fitch Ratings
Huxley Somerville answers questions about using VantageScore in Fitch Ratings models. Mr. Somerville serves as Group Managing Director and head of U.S. RMBS at Fitch.

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From the CEO —
VantageScore active with Secondary Market Group
Earlier this year VantageScore became a member of the American Securitization Forum, an industry group that provides leadership and shapes the dialogue among the various entities involved in the secondary market.

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VantageScore Speaking & Sponsorship Engagements

National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) — Annual Meeting,
Sept 27 - Oct 1, Phoenix, AZ

Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) — Annual Meeting,
Oct 9 - 12, Los Angeles

Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) — Annual Conference,
Oct 19 - 22, San Francisco

American Bankers Association (ABA) — Annual Convention,
Nov 9-12, San Francisco



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