Credit Scoring: What is it and how does it affect me?

In recent years, a credit score has become an invaluable tool in the decision-making process of granting or declining an application for finance. As responsible lenders, banks and financial institutions take into account your personal circumstances in order to try to establish the appropriate level of credit to give to an applicant, and to help them do this, most lenders will calculate a credit score to help assess an application.
Credit scoring is the technique used to assess the probability of an applicant for finance being able to meet their financial commitments and is subject to an array of determining factors. In most cases, information used by companies to provide a credit score will include information from the applicant?s credit report, available from View the rest of this article