New FICO system could lift credit scores by including checking and savings history

You may soon earn a higher credit score if you balance your checkbook responsibly.

FICO, the developer of the most widely used credit score, is rolling out a new score next year that considers how you manage your checking, savings and money market accounts in addition to how you pay back your credit cards and loans.

This additional information could help boost the credit scores of some of the 79 million Americans who have poor credit histories, along with the 53 million who have no credit score at all under the traditional FICO model. That, in turn, could help them qualify for a credit card or loan.

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