My Credit Manager brings the benefits of VantageScore 4.0

Written by Fed Finjap | 9/22/26, 1:00 PM

Array’s My Credit Manager brings VantageScore 4.0 benefits to your consumers

Array’s My Credit Manager now supports VantageScore 4.0, offering your users more benefits in the credit monitoring and education tools they enjoy every day.

Thanks to this powerful new scoring model, My Credit Manager offers:

Momentum your users can see. Account holders working to improve their financial standing are more likely to see that progress reflected in their credit scores – reinforcing the behaviors your financial wellness programs are trying to encourage.
A wider door into credit visibility. With VantageScore 4.0’s ability to score more consumers, My Credit Manager can now further serve credit insights to thin-file and newer-to-credit members that older scoring models missed.
Relevance to the milestones members care about most. As VantageScore 4.0 becomes embedded in mortgage underwriting at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the FHA, My Credit Manager’s reflected credit scores can be considered when consumers apply for a home loan, making this tool an even more meaningful part of their financial journeys.

For FIs looking to deepen engagement and support financial wellness at every stage, that’s a meaningful upgrade across the full spectrum of use cases.

Under the hood: The benefits of VantageScore 4.0

It’s helpful to understand what makes VantageScore 4.0 tick. Here’s what makes the new scoring model so powerful:

1. Trended credit data reflects real momentum – not just a static snapshot

Traditional credit scoring models have long relied on point-in-time credit file data – an isolated snapshot of a consumer’s balances, credit utilization, and payment history at the moment the score is pulled.The problem: A snapshot cannot determine whether a consumer’s debt is trending up or down. If the balances look the same on the day the score is calculated, the score treats them the same.

VantageScore 4.0 is the first and only tri-bureau credit-scoring model to incorporate trended credit data, which means it evaluates how a consumer’s borrowing and payment patterns have moved over time.¹

That distinction matters most for consumers who are actively improving their financial position – paying down balances, reducing utilization, or building a track record of on-time payments. Instead of being boxed in by a static picture, the scores reflected give consumers credit (literally!) for the progress they’re making.

For FIs, this means the score shown to account holders is more likely to reflect where they’re actually headed financially. This provides them a more honest and encouraging signal, especially for users working to rebuild or strengthen their credit standing.

VantageScore 4.0 is the first and only tri-bureau credit-scoring model to incorporate trended credit data, which means it evaluates how a consumer’s borrowing and payment patterns have moved over time.¹

2. Broader credit visibility for thin-file and consumers who are just starting out

Many traditional models struggle to confidently score consumers who don’t yet have an extensive credit file. That leaves thin-file consumers, newer-to-credit consumers, and people with dormant credit histories effectively invisible, regardless of how creditworthy they may actually be.

VantageScore 4.0 narrows that visibility gap. Using machine learning to analyze consumers’ credit histories, the model can generate scores for approximately 33 million more U.S. adults than earlier scoring approaches allowed.¹

VantageScore’s own data shows a 10% lift in scorability for consumers with dormant credit histories and a 30% lift for those with no trade lines at all.¹ Altogether, VantageScore states the model can now score roughly 94% of U.S. adults.²

Additionally, VantageScore reviews every attribute for fair lending compliance to ensure each is usable for consumers with limited credit history.³ That ensures the expanded visibility safely reaches more consumers without cutting corners on consistency or compliance.

For FIs – particularly credit unions and community banks focused on financial wellness and member growth – this means being able to responsibly extend helpful credit products, guidance, and monitoring to segments of the member base that older models might have missed.

3. Alignment with where the mortgage market is heading

Perhaps the most consequential shift around VantageScore 4.0 is happening in the mortgage world. In July 2025, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced it would immediately accept VantageScore 4.0 for mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that back the majority of U.S. mortgages.⁴

That decision ended a decades-long absence of credit score competition in the mortgage market and followed through on the Credit Score Competition Act of 2018.⁴ ⁵

Less than a year later, it was announced that the Federal Housing Administration would also permit the use of VantageScore 4.0 for FHA-insured mortgage underwriting, alongside Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s continued implementation – marking the first new credit score models accepted for GSE and FHA mortgages in decades.⁵ ⁶

VantageScore has estimated this shift could unlock as much as $1 trillion in incremental high-quality mortgage lending while opening the door to homeownership for up to 5 million creditworthy Americans.⁶

For consumers, this represents a direct line between their everyday credit score and one of their biggest financial milestones of buying a home. VantageScore 4.0 may very well become the standard upon which creditworthiness is evaluated – mortgage underwriting included.

Institutions that help account holders understand and improve their VantageScore 4.0 today are helping them prepare for one of their most significant and meaningful life events.

VantageScore 4.0 may very well become the standard upon which creditworthiness is evaluated – mortgage underwriting included.

¹ VantageScore — VantageScore 4.0 Attributes: Custom Credit Scoring Solutions; ² VantageScore — VantageScore 4.0: Predictive Credit Scoring for Lenders; ³ VantageScore — VantageScore 4.0; ⁴ VantageScore — VantageScore 4.0 Allowed for Use on All Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Mortgages Effective Immediately, July 8, 2025; ⁵ Federal Housing Finance Agency — Homebuying Advances into New Era of Credit Score Competition, April 22, 2026; ⁶ U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — Homebuying Advances into New Era of Credit Score Competition, April 2026

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My Credit Manager brings the benefits of VantageScore 4.0

Array’s My Credit Manager brings VantageScore 4.0 benefits to your consumers

Array’s My Credit Manager now supports VantageScore 4.0, offering your users more benefits in the credit monitoring and education tools they enjoy every day.

Thanks to this powerful new scoring model, My Credit Manager offers:

Momentum your users can see. Account holders working to improve their financial standing are more likely to see that progress reflected in their credit scores – reinforcing the behaviors your financial wellness programs are trying to encourage.

A wider door into credit visibility. With VantageScore 4.0’s ability to score more consumers, My Credit Manager can now further serve credit insights to thin-file and newer-to-credit members that older scoring models missed.

For FIs looking to deepen engagement and support financial wellness at every stage, that’s a meaningful upgrade across the full spectrum of use cases.

Under the hood: The benefits of VantageScore 4.0

It’s helpful to understand what makes VantageScore 4.0 tick. Here’s what makes the new scoring model so powerful:

1. Trended credit data reflects real momentum – not just a static snapshot

VantageScore 4.0 is the first and only tri-bureau credit-scoring model to incorporate trended credit data, which means it evaluates how a consumer’s borrowing and payment patterns have moved over time.¹

For FIs, this means the score shown to account holders is more likely to reflect where they’re actually headed financially. This provides them a more honest and encouraging signal, especially for users working to rebuild or strengthen their credit standing.

VantageScore 4.0 is the first and only tri-bureau credit-scoring model to incorporate trended credit data, which means it evaluates how a consumer’s borrowing and payment patterns have moved over time.¹

2. Broader credit visibility for thin-file and consumers who are just starting out

Many traditional models struggle to confidently score consumers who don’t yet have an extensive credit file. That leaves thin-file consumers, newer-to-credit consumers, and people with dormant credit histories effectively invisible, regardless of how creditworthy they may actually be.

VantageScore 4.0 narrows that visibility gap. Using machine learning to analyze consumers’ credit histories, the model can generate scores for approximately 33 million more U.S. adults than earlier scoring approaches allowed.¹

VantageScore’s own data shows a 10% lift in scorability for consumers with dormant credit histories and a 30% lift for those with no trade lines at all.¹ Altogether, VantageScore states the model can now score roughly 94% of U.S. adults.²

Additionally, VantageScore reviews every attribute for fair lending compliance to ensure each is usable for consumers with limited credit history.³ That ensures the expanded visibility safely reaches more consumers without cutting corners on consistency or compliance.

For FIs – particularly credit unions and community banks focused on financial wellness and member growth – this means being able to responsibly extend helpful credit products, guidance, and monitoring to segments of the member base that older models might have missed.

3. Alignment with where the mortgage market is heading

That decision ended a decades-long absence of credit score competition in the mortgage market and followed through on the Credit Score Competition Act of 2018.⁴ ⁵

VantageScore has estimated this shift could unlock as much as $1 trillion in incremental high-quality mortgage lending while opening the door to homeownership for up to 5 million creditworthy Americans.⁶

For consumers, this represents a direct line between their everyday credit score and one of their biggest financial milestones of buying a home. VantageScore 4.0 may very well become the standard upon which creditworthiness is evaluated – mortgage underwriting included.

Institutions that help account holders understand and improve their VantageScore 4.0 today are helping them prepare for one of their most significant and meaningful life events.

VantageScore 4.0 may very well become the standard upon which creditworthiness is evaluated – mortgage underwriting included.