The freewheeling style of Bill Pulte, the head of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—and known to some as “Little ...

As the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) opens the gates for lenders to use VantageScore 4.0 alongside, or in place of, ...

The FHFA was right to open the door to VantageScore. The time for credit-score competition has come.

Mortgage experts discuss what needs to be done for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy VantageScore 4.0 loans, and how long it ...

Adding this competitor created by the big three credit bureaus likely means credit score prices will go up, not down.

FHFA's move to greenlight VantageScore 4.0 while sidelining FICO 10T has sparked a high-stakes clash over the future of mortgage credit scoring.

Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping ...

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score to FICO for ...

Populist rhetoric on housing has devolved into nonsensical policy suggestions. Nowhere is this more evident than in FHFA director William Pulte’s move to open the floodgates to millions of unwor ...

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, on X: "Effective today, to increase competition to the Credit ...

FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced on Tuesday that the GSEs will accept VantageScore 4.0 immediately and keep tri-merge ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the company behind the widely recognized FICO score, to ...