Credit Risk Scorecards: Developing and Implementing Intelligent Credit Scoring - Hardcover

Siddiqi, Naeem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047175451X ISBN 13: 9780471754510

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

Praise for Credit Risk Scorecards

"Scorecard development is important to retail financial services in terms of credit risk management, Basel II compliance, and marketing of credit products. Credit Risk Scorecards provides insight into professional practices in different stages of credit scorecard development, such as model building, validation, and implementation. The book should be compulsory reading for modern credit risk managers."
—Michael C. S. Wong Associate Professor of Finance, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Regional Director, Global Association of Risk Professionals

"Siddiqi offers a practical, step-by-step guide for developing and implementing successful credit scorecards. He relays the key steps in an ordered and simple-to-follow fashion. A 'must read' for anyone managing the development of a scorecard."
—Jonathan G. Baum Chief Risk Officer, GE Consumer Finance, Europe

"A comprehensive guide, not only for scorecard specialists but for all consumer credit professionals. The book provides the A-to-Z of scorecard development, implementation, and monitoring processes. This is an important read for all consumer-lending practitioners."
—Satinder Ahluwalia Vice President and Head-Retail Credit, Mashreqbank, UAE

"This practical text provides a strong foundation in the technical issues involved in building credit scoring models. This book will become required reading for all those working in this area."
—J. Michael Hardin, PhD Professor of StatisticsDepartment of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management ScienceDirector, Institute of Business Intelligence

"Mr. Siddiqi has captured the true essence of the credit risk practitioner's primary tool, the predictive scorecard. He has combined both art and science in demonstrating the critical advantages that scorecards achieve when employed in marketing, acquisition, account management, and recoveries. This text should be part of every risk manager's library."
—Stephen D. Morris Director, Credit Risk, ING Bank of Canada

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Using credit risk scorecards helps large companies manage and minimize their risk exposure and thus improve their bottom lines. Most books on credit scoring emphasize the statistics-related aspects; Credit Risk Scorecards emphasizes the business-related aspects. This unique, business-focused methodology results in more robust scorecard development for real-world, company-wide applications. With this guide to intelligent credit scoring, readers will:

• Have a solid foundation in statistic and data mining principles
• Understand an end-to-end scorecard development and implementation process—from a business perspective
• Know how to incorporate business knowledge to facilitate better scorecard development
• Have practical knowledge of all aspects of scorecard development and implementation, including development roles, model building, validation, implementation, and post-implementation
• Understand how to relate credit risk scoring to Basel II Accord requirements
• Know how to use scorecards to develop risk; adjusted strategies, predict delinquencies, and perform vintage curve analysis to generate highly accurate credit loss forecasts

Credit Risk Scorecards explains a generic development methodology that is applicable globally. All locations, departments, and lines of business can use the credit risk scorecard; this results in a much more accurate analysis of a company's total exposure than can be derived from reports based on the disparate methodologies of various entities.

A valuable resource for treasurers, CFOs, credit risk analysts/managers; credit scoring analyst managers; and credit risk executives in banking, retail lending, telecommunications, and insurance; as well as undergraduate and graduate students—this book helps businesses know the score!

About the Author

NAEEM SIDDIQI is a Business Solution Specialist-Risk with SAS® Canada. He has over twelve years' experience in credit risk management, both as a consultant and as a user at financial institutions. He played a key role in the development of SAS Credit Scoring, and provides worldwide support for this initiative. Siddiqi has conducted training sessions on this methodology in Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Australia, as well as the United States, and is a frequent speaker on credit scoring related topics at conferences worldwide. Siddiqi has an honours bachelor of engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of London, and an MBA from York University in Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 047175451X
• ISBN 13: 9780471754510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208