Credit scores play an incredibly important role in our lives yet few of us truly understand where they come from and how theyre calculated.
Credit scores are provided by three primary credit repositories: Experian, Equifax and Trans Union. These are basically huge databases that house credit information on almost everybody in the country. And how do they get all this information about us? Well, creditors (like credit card, automobile and mortgage companies) are always looking for information about potential clients; people like you and me. They get that information from these repositories but in exchange, they agree to provide data about all their customers back into the same databases. Almost all of your credit providers report your payment history into these databases and every time you obtain a new credit account, that account is reported under your Social Security Number.
Credit reporting in its current form is still relatively new and a lot of people, particularly in the older generations, are still unaware of all this information being held about them and their credit histories. My own parents, for example, were shocked when I told them such databases exist...
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