credit bureau

American  

noun

1. a firm that investigates the creditworthiness of and assigns a credit rating to a client's customers or potential customers.

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Example Sentences

The credit bureau reported earnings of $11.14 a share, compared with $6.59 a share last year.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Equifax, the credit bureau, said that the war had resulted in higher interest rates and reduced U.S. mortgage activity, preventing it from raising constant-currency revenue guidance.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

“The timely repayment of a consolidation loan that reports to your credit bureau is more beneficial to you in that area than an invisible batch of buy-now-pay-later accounts,” McClary said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

Americans on average have about seven credit cards and use about four of them, according to credit bureau Experian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It is a perfectly justified and consistent thought which recently led a large credit bureau to an effort to base its information on psychological analysis.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo