Overview

This specification describes the communication between the lender's system and FinConnect. FinConnect offers RESTful Web services to facilitate integration between the two. The HTTPS protocol facilitates the communication between the lender and FinConnect.

Credit Report

A credit report is a detailed information of an applicant’s credit history such as, the loan paying history and status of credit accounts. The lenders use the Credit reports along with other details to determine the applicant’s creditworthiness.

Credit Reporting Agencies (CRA)

A Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) is a company that catalogs and sells information regarding the payment behavior of consumers and issues credit reports with the related information. The major national credit reporting agencies (also called as credit bureau) are Experian, Equifax®and TransUnion®.

The following table provides the operating hours of Credit Agencies:

Day of the week

Operation Hours in Eastern Time (EST)

Monday to Friday

9 a.m. to 8 p.m.


The following table provides the operating hours of Fannie Mae DU Credit:

Day of the week

Operation Hours in Eastern Time (EST)

Exceptional Operation Hours (EST)

Every day

24 Hours

First and Third Sundays from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. due to maintenance

FinConnect supports the credit service through the following service providers:

Product code Supported Operations

AVT_CRE_SER

Submit Request, Reissue Request, Upgrade Report, Retrieve Report

Product code

Supported Operations

CBC_CRE_1

Submit Request, Reissue Request.

The below table provides the schedule for the system maintenance hours of FactualData by CBC:

Day of the week

Maintenance Hours in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Maintenance Hours in Eastern Time (EST)

Monday 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. 2 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Tuesday 12:30 to 3 p.m. 3 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Wednesday 12:30 to 3 p.m. 3 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Thursday 12:30 to 3 p.m. 3 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Friday 12:30 to 3 p.m. 3 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Saturday 12:30 to 3 p.m. 3 to 5:30 a.m. EST
Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 2 to 7 a.m. EST
Product code

Supported Operations

CLC_CDC_1

Submit Request, Reissue Request, Upgrade Report

Note: FinConnect Credit service API version 2.1.0 supports OFAC and Soft Pull through CoreLogic Credco.

The below tables provides hours of operation and maintenance for Credco:

CREDCO BETA Hours of Operation
Day of the week

Operation Hours in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Operation Hours in Pacific Time (PST)

Monday to Friday 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST
Saturday and Sunday 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 a.m. 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. PST

 

CREDCO BETA Maintenance Hours
Day of the week

Maintenance Hours in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Maintenance Hours in Pacific Time (PST)

Monday to Friday 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. PST
Saturday and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. PST

Product code

Supported Operations

EQF_CRE_1

Submit Request, Reissue Request, Retrieve Report, Update request, Upgrade Request, Status Query Request, Cancellation Request

Product code

Supported Operations

FLD_CRE_SER

Submit Request, Reissue Request, Retrieve Report, Upgrade Report

Product code

Supported Operations

IR_CRE_SER

Submit Request, Reissue Request, Retrieve Report, Update Report, Upgrade Report

Supported Operations

Submit Request, Retrieve Request. 

Service provider

Product code

CIC Credit

CIC_CRE_SER

Credit Plus

CCP_CRE_1

Universal Credit Services (UCS)

UCS_CRE_SER

ARC Credit

ARC_CRE_1

Birchwood

BIR_CRE_SER

Advantage Credit

ADV_CRE_SER

SARMA

SAR_CRE_SER

Product code

Supported Operations

fnm_du_cre

getcreditreport


 
Note: The user should provide the product code and credentials in the request to specify which CRA to pull the credit report from.