There’s a growing gap between thriving borrowers with strong credit and struggling borrowers whose delinquencies are bringing down the average.

How good—or bad—is your credit score? See how it stacks up against others your age, and what you can do to move into a better range.

Missed student loan payments continue to hurt Americans’ average credit score, but the pain is evenly distributed, according to the credit scoring company FICO. At the same time, a record 48.1% of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FICO (NYSE: FICO), global analytics software leader, today released its Spring ’26 edition of the FICO® Score Credit Insights report, showing the average U.S. FICO ...

FICO (NYSE: FICO), global analytics software leader, today released its Spring ’26 edition of the FICO® Score Credit Insights report, showing the average U.S. FICO Score declined to 714, continuing a ...

It probably doesn’t take a doctorate in economics to make the connection of affordability challenges to another drop in average credit scores. Those trends are among the findings included in the ...

The K-shaped economy strikes again. A new report from the Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO), creator of the credit score most lenders use, shows that the average American’s FICO score is now down to 714—a ...

More than 25% of Gen Z adults between 18 and 29 with a FICO score opened at least one credit card in the past year — the ...

As social harms mount, a group of Republican lawmakers in Ohio is working to limit the state’s sports-betting businesses. As ...

Private equity giant Blackstone has returned to the US residential mortgage-backed securitization market after a gap of four ...