The Institutional Risk Analyst

Consumers and policy makers will probably be surprised to learn how imprecise the world of aggregating consumer data remains in 2026, almost 40 years since the first standardized consumer credit score, known as the FICO Score, was published in the United States in 1989. The fact that several new scores have been published by the aggregators of consumer data has not improved the situation appreciably. How can the consumer finance industry and the regulatory agencies get this r

Some of the housing industry’s largest trade groups reportedly want housing finance agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to look at using new types of credit scores for assessing default risk on residential mortgages. These groups argue that existing scores are "unfair" to low income borrowers.