CREDIT SCORING FACTORS

Five factors contribute to your overall credit score.



credit scoring

  • PAYMENT HISTORY - 35%

    •   Account payment information on specific types of accounts.

         (credit cards, retail accounts, installment loans, finance company accounts, mortgage, etc.)

    •   Presence of adverse public records (bankruptcy, judgments, suits, liens, wage attachments, etc.),   

         collection items, and/or delinquency (past due items)

    •   Severity of delinquency (how long past due)

    •   Amount past due on delinquent accounts or collection items

    •   Time since (most recent) past due items (delinquency), adverse public records (if any), or collection

         items (if any)

    •   Number of past due items on file

    •   Number of accounts paid as agreed

     

  • AMOUNTS OWED - 30%

    •   Amount owing on accounts

    •   Amount owing on specific types of accounts

    •   Lack of a specific type of balance, in some cases

    •   Number of accounts with balances

    •   Proportion of credit lines used (proportion of balances to total credit limits on certain types of

         revolving accounts)

    •   Proportion of installment loan amounts still owing (proportion of balance to original loan amount on

         certain types

  • LENGTH OF CREDIT HISTORY - 15%

    •   Time since accounts opened

    •   Time since accounts opened, by specific type of account

    •   Time since account activity

  • TYPES OF CREDIT UTILIZED - 10%

    Number of (presence, prevalence, and recent information on) various types of accounts 
    (credit cards, retail accounts, installment loans, mortgage, consumer finance accounts, etc.)

  • NEW CREDIT - 10%

    •   Number of recently opened accounts, and proportion of accounts that are recently opened, by type of account

    •   Number of recent credit inquiries

    •   Time since recent account opening(s), by type of account

    •   Time since credit inquiry(s)

    •   Re-establishment of positive credit history following past payment problems

     


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