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B3-5.3-01, Number and Age of Accounts (04/01/2009)

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This topic contains information on the number and age of accounts.


Number and Age of Accounts

The lender must review the borrower’s credit report to determine whether they have an older established credit history or a newly established credit history, and whether there are a significant number of recently opened accounts or a mix of new accounts and older accounts.

Credit histories that include older, established accounts generally represent lower credit risk. However, an older, established credit history that includes a significant number of recently opened accounts may indicate that the borrower is overextended, and thus will represent a higher credit risk.

A newly established credit history does not automatically represent a higher credit risk, since making payments as agreed on newly opened accounts represents less of a risk than not making payments as agreed on older, established accounts.


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