creditworthy

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In the traditional model, developers and external investors—often infrastructure funds and banks—took on the risk of developing and constructing the project, with financing backstopped by the creditworthy tech company’s power purchase agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

In general, a higher credit score lowers the borrower’s mortgage rate, because it signals to the lender that the borrower is creditworthy and will pay back their loan.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

After conducting industry research during the pandemic, the three most-used credit rating agencies found that consumers with medical expenses were just as likely to be creditworthy as those without.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023

The least creditworthy companies will struggle to raise money needed to hire and expand.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2022

That is, the lenders were making loans to people who were less creditworthy than 71 percent of the population.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis