Using account level credit-card data from six major commercial banks from January 2009 to December 2013, we apply machine-learning techniques to combined consumer-tradeline, credit-bureau, and macroeconomic variables to predict delinquency. In addition to providing accurate measures of loss...

Using account level credit-card data from six major commercial banks from January 2009 to December 2013, we apply machine-learning techniques to combined consumer-tradeline, credit-bureau, and macroeconomic variables to predict delinquency. In addition to providing accurate measures of loss...

AI/ML models are used for many financial applications ranging from portfolio selection to efficient credit allocation. However, the drawback to applying these models in practice is that performance (i.e., predictive power) is generally inversely related to model complexity. In this chapter, we...