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A dating app with credit scores: What’s not to love?
Proving you can manage your finances has pulling power.
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The trend started last year after a woman in Boston added her excellent credit score to her profile.
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Claer Barrett
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If you’re looking for a date, what would your minimum credit score requirement be? Unless you’re taking the unadvisable step of lending this person some money, it’s a fairly arbitrary question. But in the world of online dating, it turns out a healthy credit score has real pulling power.
The trend started in 2023 when an accountant in Boston added a screenshot of her excellent credit score to her Hinge profile. “All I needed to see – drinks next Thursday?” replied one potential suitor. One TikTok post and a million views later, other Gen Z and millennial daters followed her lead. It became a thing.
