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.
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
That is, the lenders were making loans to people who were less creditworthy than 71 percent of the population.
From Literature
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Likewise, recent headlines have highlighted trouble for some less creditworthy “subprime” borrowers on their car loans.
This change, in theory, will allow lenders to apply criteria that are the best fit for their communities and expand the pool of creditworthy borrowers.
From Seattle Times
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