A survey of machine learning in credit risk

Author(s):  
Joseph Breeden
Keyword(s):  
Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Paritosh Navinchandra Jha ◽  
Marco Cucculelli

The paper introduces a novel approach to ensemble modeling as a weighted model average technique. The proposed idea is prudent, simple to understand, and easy to implement compared to the Bayesian and frequentist approach. The paper provides both theoretical and empirical contributions for assessing credit risk (probability of default) effectively in a new way by creating an ensemble model as a weighted linear combination of machine learning models. The idea can be generalized to any classification problems in other domains where ensemble-type modeling is a subject of interest and is not limited to an unbalanced dataset or credit risk assessment. The results suggest a better forecasting performance compared to the single best well-known machine learning of parametric, non-parametric, and other ensemble models. The scope of our approach can be extended to any further improvement in estimating weights differently that may be beneficial to enhance the performance of the model average as a future research direction.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Cao Yanli

The research on the risk pricing of Internet finance online loans not only enriches the theory and methods of online loan pricing, but also helps to improve the level of online loan risk pricing. In order to improve the efficiency of Internet financial supervision, this article builds an Internet financial supervision system based on machine learning algorithms and improved neural network algorithms. Moreover, on the basis of factor analysis and discretization of loan data, this paper selects the relatively mature Logistic regression model to evaluate the credit risk of the borrower and considers the comprehensive management of credit risk and the matching with income. In addition, according to the relevant provisions of the New Basel Agreement on expected losses and economic capital, starting from the relevant factors, this article combines the credit risk assessment results to obtain relevant factors through regional research and conduct empirical analysis. The research results show that the model constructed in this paper has certain reliability.


Author(s):  
Sivakumar G. Pillai ◽  
Jennifer Woodbury ◽  
Nikhil Dikshit ◽  
Avery Leider ◽  
Charles C. Tappert

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 358-372
Author(s):  
E. V. Orlova ◽  

The article considers the problem of reducing the banks credit risks associated with the insolvency of borrowers — individuals using financial, socio-economic factors and additional data about borrowers digital footprint. A critical analysis of existing approaches, methods and models in this area has been carried out and a number of significant shortcomings identified that limit their application. There is no comprehensive approach to identifying a borrowers creditworthiness based on information, including data from social networks and search engines. The new methodological approach for assessing the borrowers risk profile based on the phased processing of quantitative and qualitative data and modeling using methods of statistical analysis and machine learning is proposed. Machine learning methods are supposed to solve clustering and classification problems. They allow to automatically determine the data structure and make decisions through flexible and local training on the data. The method of hierarchical clustering and the k-means method are used to identify similar social, anthropometric and financial indicators, as well as indicators characterizing the digital footprint of borrowers, and to determine the borrowers risk profile over group. The obtained homogeneous groups of borrowers with a unique risk profile are further used for detailed data analysis in the predictive classification model. The classification model is based on the stochastic gradient boosting method to predict the risk profile of a potencial borrower. The suggested approach for individuals creditworthiness assessing will reduce the banks credit risks, increase its stability and profitability. The implementation results are of practical importance. Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the existing and the proposed methodology for assessing credit risk showed that the new methodology provides predictive ana­lytics of heterogeneous information about a potential borrower and the accuracy of analytics is higher. The proposed techniques are the core for the decision support system for justification of individuals credit conditions, minimizing the aggregate credit risks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huei-Wen Teng ◽  
Michael Lee

Machine learning has successful applications in credit risk management, portfolio management, automatic trading, and fraud detection, to name a few, in the domain of finance technology. Reformulating and solving these topics adequately and accurately is problem specific and challenging along with the availability of complex and voluminous data. In credit risk management, one major problem is to predict the default of credit card holders using real dataset. We review five machine learning methods: the [Formula: see text]-nearest neighbors decision trees, boosting, support vector machine, and neural networks, and apply them to the above problem. In addition, we give explicit Python scripts to conduct analysis using a dataset of 29,999 instances with 23 features collected from a major bank in Taiwan, downloadable in the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository. We show that the decision tree performs best among others in terms of validation curves.


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