FICO launches new credit scoring system for mortgage lending

Published August 23, 2012 12:00am ET



Credit scoring company FICO has teamed up with data provider CoreLogic on a new credit scoring system specifically for mortgage lenders aimed at giving them more confidence in risk taking and homebuyers more credit for good financial decisions.

The FICO Mortgage Score Powered by CoreLogic uses the FICO model to mine information from a new CoreLogic credit report, much as the old model worked with other data sources to produce the familiar FICO score.

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