Effective immediately, Fannie and Freddie will allow mortgage lenders to use VantageScore credit ratings to assess ...

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has decided to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score for borrower applications.

VantageScore President and CEO Silvio Tavares joins ‘The Claman Countdown’ to discuss the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s decision to allow VantageScore 4.0 for mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and ...

Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping ...

For decades, mortgage lenders have used a single credit score — the FICO score — to underwrite applications for home loans.

Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) stock tumbled 8.9% in Tuesday trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said ...

The regulator for Fannie and Freddie wants to reduce the use of FICO for housing credit, while factoring in borrowers’ rent ...

The move their regulator Bill Pulte announced introduces competition for one metric but charges from three credit bureaus ...

Director William J. Pulte’s announcement yesterday that mortgage lenders who sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can, ...

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, on X: "Effective today, to increase competition to the Credit ...

Mortgage lenders can now use the VantageScore 4.0 model when originating loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which ...

FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced on Tuesday that the GSEs will accept VantageScore 4.0 immediately and keep tri-merge ...