Should you add your credit score to your dating app profile?

Research shows dating app profiles with a ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ credit score more likely to find a match

Young couple check credit score
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There are lots of good reasons to improve your credit rating but new research shows that it may also improve your love life.

According to a study by personal finance firm Intuit Credit Karma, dating app profiles with a ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ credit score encouraged half of singles to ‘swipe right’, compared with those with poor credit scores.

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Chris Newlands

Chris is a freelance journalist, and was previously an editor and correspondent at the Financial Times as well as the business and money editor at The i Newspaper. He is also the author of the Virgin Money Maker, the personal finance guide published by Virgin Books, and has written for the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Barron's and The Guardian. He is a graduate in Economics.