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Catherine New

A Scarlett Letter On Economic Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Credit Report, Debt, Payday Lending, Corescore, Fico, Auto Insurance, Employment, Background Checks, Corelogic, Data Collection, Credit, Experian, Credit Check, Credit Score, Transunion, Rent-to-Own, Equifax, Business News

Thanks to a new kind of credit score, more borrowed money may end up in the hands of the increasing number of Americans who are sliding down the econo...

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Arthur Delaney

Civil Rights, Labor Advocates Demand End To Employment Credit Checks

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Employment Credit Checks, Credit Report, Video, Free Credit Check, Unemployment, Credit Checks, Credit Monitoring, Hiring Discrimination, Credit Reports, Experian, Jobs, Transunion, Equifax, Latino Prosperity, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 25 civil rights and labor advocacy groups petitioned one of the nation's largest credit-monitoring firms on Tuesday to qu...

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The Death Squad of the Consumer: the Credit Scoring Agencies

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Credit Report, Transunion, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Experian, Credit Score, Credit Rating Agencies, Banks, United States, Credit Cards, Federal Trade Commission, Equifax, Financial Institutions, Home News
Georges Ugeux

It is rather strange that, in the fury of the abuses by credit card issuers, little attention has been paid to those who, on behalf of the banks, ha...

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Getting Mortgage Assistance Can Lower Your Credit Score

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Report, Hamp, Mortgage Assistance Credti Score, Fico, Making Home Affordable, Experian, Credit Scores, Foreclosure, Transunion, Personal Credit Scores, Equifax, Business News

WASHINGTON (By ALAN ZIBEL, AP) -- Some homeowners who sign up for the government's mortgage assistance program are getting a nasty surprise: Lower cre...

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Arthur Delaney

Experian Sued For Its Deceptive FreeCreditReport.com Ads

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Eric-Violette, Experian, Transunion, Class Action Lawsuit, Credit Reporting Act, FreeCreditReport.Com, Equifax, Business News

A Wisconsin woman is suing the credit-reporting agency Experian because its ubiquitous advertisements for FreeCreditReport.com made her think she coul...

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FTC Takes On Credit Monitoring Services Like Freecreditreport.com

New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experian, Identity Theft, Credit Report, Free Credit Report, Transunion, Free, Ftc, Consumer Protection, Credit Monitoring Services, Consumer Credit, Equifax, Business News

The Federal Trade Commission is not amused. It has long believed that the company that owns freecreditreport.com is deliberately diverting people from...

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Reed Elsevier Buys ChoicePoint for $3.6B

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reed Elsevier ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier, ChoicePoint, Equifax, LexisNexis, Business News

ATLANTA — ChoicePoint Inc., a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a cash deal worth $3.6 bil...

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How To Clear Mistakes From Your Credit Report

MSNBC | Laura T. Coffey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experian, Free Credit Report, Equifax, AnnualCreditReport.Com, Credit Reports, Transunion, Business News

Have you ever been horrified to discover errors on your credit report? Such inaccuracies can and should strike fear into any conscientious consumer's ...

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