When a lender wants to know how likely you are to repay your loan or credit card balance, it looks at one of your credit scores. This three-digit number represents whether you’re an excellent credit risk, a poor risk, or somewhere in-between. If you have an excellent credit score, credit card issuers and lenders are…
We’ve got 3D printers. Teslas. Computers that can beat humans at chess. And yet in the United States, most of us are still using chip-and-signature credit cards and cash. It’s a new decade — shouldn’t we be paying for groceries with our eyeballs by now? Yes, and we’re almost there. Mobile wallets, which are already…
If all goes well with your mortgage, your money will always go toward paying your balance, and you’ll never accidentally underpay or overpay your mortgage balance. But if you do happen to underpay or overpay, your mortgage lender can’t simply accept a partial payment or send you a refund check. Instead, your money goes into…