Model Building in Creditcard and Loan Approval V
Model Building in Creditcard and Loan Approval V
Venkat Reddy
Note
• This presentation is just the lecture notes for the talk on Credit Risk Model building
conducted for MBA students
• The best way to treat this is as a high-level summary; the actual session went more
in depth and contained other information.
• Most of this material was written as informal notes, not intended for publication
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-Venkat Reddy
Contents
• Long legs: 75% (Horses with long legs won 75% of the times)
• Breed A: 55%, Breed B: 15 % Others : 30%
• T/L (Tummy to length) ratio <1/2 :75 %
• Gender: Male -68%
• Head size: Small 10%, Medium 15% Large 75%
• Country: Africa -65%
Given the historical data
Which one of these two horses would you bet on?
Kalyan Chethak
Length of legs 150 cm 110 cm
Breed A F
T/L ratio 0.3 0.6
Gender Male Female
Head size Large Small
Country India India
Given the historical data
Which one would you bet on….now?
Kalyan Chethak
Length of legs 110 cm 150 cm
Breed C A
T/L ratio 0.45 0.60
Gender Male Female
Head size Small Large
Country Africa India
Given the historical data
What about best one in this lot?
Horse-1 Horse-2 Horse-3 Horse-4 Horse-5 Horse-6 Horse-7 Horse-8 Horse-9 Horse-10
Length of
109 114 134 130 149 120 104 117 115 135
legs
Breed C A B A F K L B C A
T/L ratio 0.1 0.8 0.5 1.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.9
Gender Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
Head size L S M M L L S M L M
Country Africa India Aus NZ Africa Africa India India Aus Africa
Citi has a similar problem?
Who is going to run away with my money?
• Given Historical of the customers we want to predict the probability of bad
• We have the data of each customer on
• Customer previous loans, customer previous payments, length of account credit
history, other credit cards and loans, job type, income band etc.,
• We want to predict the probability of default
Credit Risk Model Building
Four main steps
1. Study historical
data
3. Find the exact
• What are the 2. Identify the most 4. Use these
causes(Customer impact of each
impacting factors coefficients for future
Characteristics) factor(Quantify it)
• What are the
effects(Charge off)
The Historical Data of Customers
Attribute Value