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Credit building is a strong and valuable practice that many know how to do but very few actually do it well and are able to maintain responsible credit usage to boost their credit score scale. There are many experts who suggest opening and servicing three different credit sources. These lines could be a gas card, a credit card, and even a vehicle loan.

Once you pay off your debts established to a little bit more than the minimum that is due on your balance, you’ll be off to a good start to building credit.  It often is good to have a co-signer for your first credit accounts that are established as begin to grow your profile on the credit score scale.

Lenders like to see a co-signer often times for your first few accounts so that they can have someone who is trustworthy.  A co-signer can be a good thing to have on your file because it will reduce your monthly interest rate payments. Any future debts will not be as much if your co-signer has a nice FICO score. But you’ll need to make sure they fully trust you if they are going to be your co-signer on the account.

The more you can show lenders that you can handle debt, the more responsible and credit worthy you are perceived. If you’re going after the highest credit score scale, you’ll want to use this helpful time regularly.   After having a nice looking score, you will be contacted by various lenders including banks and other business offers. These offers will come with great advantages as you build credit such as lower interest rates, cash back, and airplane miles.

It’s important to be aware when starting out because having many cards will harm you score if they’re not used. Typically I’ll only recommend having two to three lines at first. That was you can take it slow and handle them well to build a nice credit score scale.

With all the outrage over banks lately I decided to write a quick summary of the largest banks in the world. This is to help people put in perspective how large certains banks actually are. All of these figures are based on the revenue of the bank. So the next time you are outraged over banker bonuses. Rightfully or not you know who to get mad at and in what order!

Rank Bank Country Ticker Assets (in US$Mil.) Dividend Yield
1 Royal Bank of Scotland UK (RBS) 3,483,179 N/A
2 Deutsche Bank Germany (DB) 3,068,724 1.04%
3 Barclays Bank UK (BCS) 2,977,491 N/A
4 BNP Paribas France (BNPQY.PK) 2,477,272 1.76%
5 Credit Agricole Group France 2,067,577
6 UBS Switzerland (UBS) 1,881,246 N/A
7 JP Morgan Chase & Co US (JPM) 1,746,242 4.11%
8 Societe Generale France (SCGLY.PK) 1,566,904 2.25%
9 Bank of America Corp US (BAC) 1,471,631 0.23%
10 UniCredit Italy 1,456,892

Another item that most might find interesting is that JP Morgan is 7th on the list. In America we look at them as one of the largest banks. But on a global scale they actually are almost half of the top bank based out of the United Kingdom.

We have published another article on which countries have the most gold reserves. It is on the same topic and you might find it interesting