PERC Canada estimates that nearly 6 million Canadians are “credit invisible.” This population either has no credit report (no-file population) with a nationwide consumer reporting agency (TransUnion, Equifax), or has insufficient data in their credit report to generate a credit score (unscoreable population). Credit Invisibles in Canada are mostly lower income persons, immigrants, members of minority communities (including First Nations), younger and elderly Canadians, and the unbanked and underbanked (nearly 1 in 5 Canadians). They remain financially excluded, and face considerable barriers trying to build assets and generate wealth by home or small business ownership.