As an industry leader, VantageScore advances innovation and collaborates on public policy to provide much needed reform in credit-score model development. We take time to find common ground to support an agenda that serves consumers, lenders, and the financial market as a whole.
By providing a fair and accurate credit score to a broader population, VantageScore creates opportunities for lenders to extend credit safely and soundly to consumers historically underserved by legacy processes.
All VantageScore credit-scoring models score more than conventional credit-scoring models by using new data analytics technologies to generate predictive scores for consumers commonly left without a conventional credit score.
VantageScore research shows that in addition to underserved borrowers, there is an increased percentage of newly scorables in:
VantageScore identified over 869 newly lendable borrowers with credit scores > 620 in Texas alone.
How many consumers lack conventional scores in your home state?
Visit Inclusion360 to find outVantageScore eliminated all paid collections, including all medical collection accounts, in 2013 with the introduction of VantageScore 3.0.
All VantageScore models ignore medical debt when it is reported by a medical facility.
While the specific score impact with vary and depend on a person's particular credit profile, VantageScore 4.0's treatment can lessen a medical collection account's impact by up to approximately 24 points.
The CFPB has received some 800,000 credit or credit reporting complaints. Their data also indicates that disputes with the credit reporting industry are more common among those in underserved neighborhoods.
The Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents the credit reporting companies points to credit-repair firms as a major contributor to the issue, saying that, “The CFPB report highlights trends including increased activity by certain credit-repair companies, which can inflate complaint numbers and undermine the process of addressing legitimate requests.”