Risk Minimization in Consumer Credit Cooperative Activities

Recent developments in consumer credit risk assessment

Consumer credit risk assessment involves the use of risk assessment tools to manage a borrower’s account from the time of pre-screening a potential application through to the management of the account during its life and possible write-off. The riskiness of lending to a credit applicant is usually estimated using a logistic regression model though researchers have considered many other types of...

Modelling Credit Risk in portfolios of consumer loans: Transition Matrix Model for Consumer Credit Ratings

The corporate credit risk literature has many studies modelling the change in the credit risk of corporate bonds over time. There is far less analysis of the credit risk for portfolios of consumer loans. However behavioural scores, which are commonly calculated on a monthly basis by most consumer lenders are the analogues of ratings in corporate credit risk. Motivated by studies in corporate cr...

Modelling consumer credit risk via survival analysis

Credit risk models are used by financial companies to evaluate in advance the insolvency risk caused by credits that enter into default. Many models for credit risk have been developed over the past few decades. In this paper, we focus on those models that can be formulated in terms of the probability of default by using survival analysis techniques. With this objective three different mechanis...

Credit Risk Modeling for Online Consumer Loans

Institutional investors and investment managers seek to better characterize the credit risk of online consumer loans. This article describes how to prepare the data and build a credit risk model that can be used for a number of applications including generating alpha, issuing protection and securitizing loans into bonds with the desired risk/reward profile. A simple example is used to provide i...

Occupational and Employment Variations in Commercial Bank Consumer Credit Risk