A premium credit card could be your gateway to lower interest rates, cheap hotels, and airport lounges - but what credit score do you need to actually get one?

This article originally appeared on Moneywise.com under the title: The way your credit score is calculated is about to change ...

When you view your credit score, you're likely to see a different three-digit number depending on whether you checked your score online, on your banking app or via another means. Although you have ...

As you get familiar with your credit, you’ll quickly realize multiple types of scores exist. Although both FICO scores and credit scores exist, understanding which one lenders use can be helpful.

Kailey Hagen has been writing about small businesses and finance for almost 10 years. Articles she's written for The Motley Fool have been syndicated to USA Today, MSN, and Yahoo! Finance. She ...

Credit scores existed for decades before 1989. What changed that year was the introduction of the FICO score, the first generic credit scoring system. Previously, lenders developed and used their own ...

Fair Isaac (FICO), also known as FICO, said on Wednesday that Xactus is the first verifications technology provider to ...