Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY - A company that collects and sells information about how people handle credit....
  
  
• CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY (OR BUREAU) - An organization that prepares reports that are used by lenders to...
  
  
• CREDIT REPORTING COMPANY - Company that collects information received from more than one credit reposit...
  
  
• CREDIT REPOSITORY - Organizations that maintain and make available public credit history records; lende...
  
  
• CREDIT REPOSITORY OR CREDIT BUREAU - An organizationthat gathers, records, updates, and stores financia...
  
  
• CREDIT RISK - The risk to earnings or capital from the potential that a borrower or counterparty will f...
  
  
• CREDIT RISK SCORE - A credit risk score is a statistical summary of the information contained in a cons...
  
  
• CREDIT SALES - are merchandise or services sold on the promise to pay later.
  
  
• CREDIT SCORE - A single numerical score, based on an individual's credit history, that measures that in...
  
  
• CREDIT SCORING - The evaluation system used by lending institutions to determine relative credit riskin...