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VantageScore Launches Mortgage Credit Simulator as Score Competition Reaches Underwriting

VantageScore Launches Mortgage Credit Simulator as Score Competition Reaches Underwriting

by John G. Stevens | Oct 19, 2026 | Industry Updates, Mortgage Information, Tech Trends

VantageScore has introduced a mortgage credit-score simulation API designed to show lenders how particular changes to a borrower’s credit file might affect a VantageScore 4.0 result. The October 16 launch adds another tool to an increasingly competitive mortgage...
Equifax Launches $1 Mortgage Credit-File Repull as Lenders Prepare for Multiple Scores

Equifax Launches $1 Mortgage Credit-File Repull as Lenders Prepare for Multiple Scores

by John G. Stevens | Oct 8, 2026 | Current News & Events, Mortgage Information, Tech Trends

Equifax introduced Mortgage Score Select on October 8, offering mortgage lenders and brokers a way to obtain its credit file with a chosen score—or no score—and retrieve the file again within 24 hours for a $1 repull charge. The $1 figure applies to the subsequent...
FICO to Cut 15% of Positions as AI Restructuring Meets New Mortgage-Score Competition

FICO to Cut 15% of Positions as AI Restructuring Meets New Mortgage-Score Competition

by John G. Stevens | Oct 6, 2026 | Current News & Events, Industry Updates, Mortgage Information

Fair Isaac Corp., the company behind the FICO credit score, is eliminating approximately 15% of positions across the company as part of a restructuring that will reduce management layers and integrate artificial intelligence into product development. The workforce...
Fannie and Freddie Move to One Pricing Grid as VantageScore Challenge to FICO Deepens

Fannie and Freddie Move to One Pricing Grid as VantageScore Challenge to FICO Deepens

by John G. Stevens | Sep 29, 2026 | Current News & Events, Industry Updates, Mortgage Information, U.S. Housing Market

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are moving toward a single mortgage pricing grid that will incorporate VantageScore alongside Classic FICO, the latest step in a rapid overhaul of the credit-score system underpinning much of the U.S. mortgage market. Federal Housing Finance...
MISMO Adds FICO, VantageScore and Guild Leaders as Credit Modernization Accelerates

MISMO Adds FICO, VantageScore and Guild Leaders as Credit Modernization Accelerates

by John G. Stevens | Sep 13, 2026 | Current News & Events, Mortgage Information, Tech Trends

The mortgage industry’s standards body is adding three executives with unusually direct stakes in one of the business’s biggest technology transitions: how lenders measure credit risk, exchange borrower data and govern the growing use of automation. MISMO...
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