Originally Posted by
Ancien Maestro
Apparently, my Equifax bureau has been dormant for many years, but why did my Amex balances show up on Equifax? Seems to me, Amex does some sort of reporting.. and if Amex reports to Equifax, what would stop them from reporting credit checks?
The financial institutions automatically report balances to the bureaus monthly on your open accounts, so both bureaus should have a full picture of what credit accounts you have open and your payment history with them. But that's not the same thing as pulling your credit report. I don't have any inside knowledge about what the various banks can and can't do, but from the 10+ years of credit reports I have saved on my computer (YMMV?), at least in my case, I've observed the banks stick with the same bureau when making credit checks.