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Got A Credit Card In Your Purse? Thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The nation mourns this week as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in Washington, DC starting Wednesday (Sept. Under the law, it is illegal to discriminate against a borrower “on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or age in credit transactions.”.

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Top 5 Risk Analytics Posts: From Rising FICO Scores to Alt-Data

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For the first time since we’ve been tracking these stats, the average national FICO Score reached the 700 threshold — some 10 points above what it was just prior to the recession in October 2006.”. Millennials and Credit: Are We Missing the Real Story? Read the full post.