In Brief: Credit Scoring Gets Cautious Nod from Fitch

Fitch Investors Service is weighing in on the side of credit scoring for mortgage loans.

The rating agency calls a borrower's credit score "a valuable piece of information in the overall evaluation of the likelihood of a mortgagor default."

But, Fitch continues in a recent report, the information should not be used to make or break a loan.

"There is not yet enough statistical information on mortgage credit scoring to allow loans to be approved automatically based only on their scores," the report states.

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