Overview: The banking industry faces a significant challenge in accurately assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers to make informed lending decisions. Traditional credit scoring models, which often rely on limited information such as credit history, may not accurately reflect the risk of default. To address this challenge, our team was tasked with developing a more accurate and comprehensive model for predicting the probability of default.
Solution: Our team developed a PD (Probability of Default) model that uses a wide range of customer data, including behavioural and demographic data, to predict the probability of default. The model is based on machine learning algorithms that are trained on historical data to identify patterns and correlations between different variables and default risk.
We first collected and cleaned a large dataset of loan applications and associated customer data and used various machine learning algorithms, such as logistic regression and decision trees, to train and test the model. We also conducted feature selection and engineering to identify the most relevant variables for predicting default risk.
The output of the model is a single score that reflects the probability of default, which can be used to inform lending decisions and set appropriate interest rates.
