News Topic: Credit Reporting

Props to Jodi Helmer for her recent story on creditcards.com about dating and credit scores. I am interested in this development in general and also in how it might jibe with current protocol on who pays for dates.  ... Read full article

The Chicago Tribune is running a Reuters story  describing a study from Equifax that student loan write-offs totaled $3 billion in the first quarter of 2013. It's an impressive study. According to the story, "Equifax analyzes data from more than ... Read full article

From the February 9th Economist : ... Read full article

A recent FTC study of errors in credit reports is getting a lot of press. According to the most recent in a number of studies of the accuracy of credit reports, about 5% of U.S. consumers have an error on their credit report that is serious enough to ... Read full article

I have been working for a few years in developing and creating a consumer outreach website at MyConsumerTips.info .   The site is purely non-profit and has no sponsors or advertisers. It aims to simply provide consumers with “consumer tips” that change ... Read full article

Following on to my Acxiom story last week,  check out yesterday’s NYT story on e-scores.  The e-score is a private digitized ranking of consumers in the range of 0 to 99 that tells marketers your full socio- economic status, including your occupation, ... Read full article

Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Silver-Greenberg casts a spotlight on the market for fertility treatment loans - including loans that enable the purchase of other women's eggs  - in the article "In Vitro a Fertile Niche for Lenders."  ... Read full article