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

Your daughter’s credit score might not be showing up on Credit Karma because there is no legal requirement for lenders to report to the credit bureaus which loans they’ve issued.

From MarketWatch

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

From The Wall Street Journal

They are no longer living in the U.S., but their personal information remains scattered across school databases and credit bureaus, which according to Maimon makes them prime prey for opportunistic hackers and fraudsters.

From Los Angeles Times

Even once payments resumed in October 2023, borrowers had a year-long grace period before missed payments were reported to credit bureaus.

From MarketWatch

Michael McRoberts is a Northwestern graduate in biomedical engineering who spent much of his career designing debt-collection strategies for a credit bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal