12 CFR 1254.2
§ 1254.2 Definitions.
United States · 12 CFR — Banks and Banking · Status: effective
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- 12 CFR 1254.2, § 1254.2 Definitions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/50669
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For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply. Definitions of other terms may be found in 12 CFR part 1201, General Definitions Applying to All Federal Housing Finance Agency Regulations.
Credit score means a numerical value or a categorization created by a third party derived from a statistical tool or modeling system used by a person who makes or arranges a loan to predict the likelihood of certain credit behaviors, including default.
Credit score model means a statistical tool or algorithm created by a third party used to produce a numerical value or categorization to predict the likelihood of certain credit behaviors.
Credit score model developer means any person with ownership rights in the intellectual property of a credit score model.
Days means calendar days.
Mortgage means a residential mortgage as that term is defined at 12 U.S.C. 1451(h).
Person means an individual, sole proprietor, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, trust, joint venture, pool, syndicate, organization, or other legal entity.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.