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Free Credit Score Report Card and Analysis - My Money Blog

In case the last 5 free ways to get your credit score weren’t enough, there’s also the free Credit.com Report Card. It is actually a pretty comprehensive analysis …

Rent Your Way to Good Credit - Kiplinger.com

Late-night commercials for used cars promise "no credit, no problem." But for the 50 million Americans who have little or no credit — among them young people, recently widowed or divorced individuals, immigrants and those who proudly operate on a cash-only basis — it's "no credit, no luck" if they want to get a credit card, take out a car loan or buy a house.

To remedy the situation, Fair Isaac, the company that compiles the FICO credit score, has developed an Expansion score, based on nontraditional consumer-credit data, including deposit-account records and layaway purchases.

HSBC Is The Most Identity-Theft Prone Bank - The Consumerist

If you're a customer with Bank of America or HSBC, you're more likely to be a victim of identity theft, according to a new report. Chris Hoofnagle, a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley, compiled a list of all the banks mentioned in identity theft complaints filed with the FTC for January, March and September of 2006.