Course 2910 lessons

Understanding your credit report

A close look at the document that quietly follows you into every loan and credit card application: what's actually in it, how the score gets calculated, how to check and dispute it through the Credit Information Corporation, and how to build or rebuild it on purpose.

What's actually in a credit report

A credit report is a detailed record of how you've borrowed and repaid money, compiled from information that banks, lending companies, and other lenders report about you. It isn't a single document any one company owns. It's assembled piece by piece from every lender you've ever borrowed from, then pulled together into one file whenever someone needs to see it.