Information asset analysis: credit scoring and credit suggestion

Risk assessment is important for financial institutions, especially in loan applications. Some have already implemented their own credit-scoring mechanisms to evaluate their clients' risk and make decisions based on this indicator. In fact, the data gathered by financial institutions is a valua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Fábio (author)
Other Authors: Analide, César (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/14384
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/14384
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Summary:Risk assessment is important for financial institutions, especially in loan applications. Some have already implemented their own credit-scoring mechanisms to evaluate their clients' risk and make decisions based on this indicator. In fact, the data gathered by financial institutions is a valuable source of information to create information assets, from which credit-scoring mechanisms can be developed. The purpose of this paper is to create, from information assets, a decision mechanism that is able to evaluate a client's risk. Furthermore, a suggestive algorithm is presented to better explain and give insights on how the decision mechanism values attributes.