Riddell is the NFL's helmet provider; players are free to wear other helmets, so long as they obscure the brand. This is why the white stripe on the back of an NFL helmet may say a team's name; that means the player is not wearing a Riddell, and has covered the Riddell logo.
FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a software company based in San Jose, California and founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States.
The three credit agencies hope their own credit score model, the VantageScore, will become a viable competitor. 1  In March of 2006 the first version was launched. 2  In October 2010 the second version â 2.0 â was launched. 3  In 2013, the score switched to a 300-to-850 range with its 3.0 model to more closely follow FICO.