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The FICO credit score was created by the former Fair Isaac Corp. (now FICO) in 1989, and it’s used by 90% of top lenders. Three credit bureaus provide this score: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.

If you have a 600 credit score, you're unlikely to get approved for top-tier credit cards, but you still have good options you can use to build credit.

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After a roughly five-year hiatus, student loan borrowers are once again seeing their credit scores plunge if they fall behind on payments. Economists say it could be bad news for borrowers and the ...

A perfect credit score of 850 is hard to attain. According to recent data from Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, only about 1.5% of U.S. consumers have a perfect FICO score of 850.