Experian to include rent on credit report

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Credit agency Experian is to start showing rental payment history on credit reports. But is this a good thing? And who benefits?

Experian, one of the UK's three main credit reference agencies, has created a new product that shows how clean your rental payment history is.

On launching the product, Experian declared straight away that its purpose is to help tenants. So we can be pretty confident that's not the real reason.

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