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 conversation, if you want to have one, should be with your wife, not the credit-card company or the credit bureau.

From MarketWatch

For example, Esusu sends its members’ monthly payments to all three credit bureaus and can report up to two years of past on-time payments to help build credit quickly.

From MarketWatch

Or risk being late on payments, have it reported to the credit bureau, and then sell and rent?

From MarketWatch

It also banned late fees, foreclosures and negative reports to credit bureaus.

From Los Angeles Times

Other issuers only have access to your total available credit, credit-card balances and overall debt-to-limit ratio, which is passed along to the credit bureaus.

From MarketWatch