Consumer finance
A method of classifying imbalanced credit data based on the AC-CTGAN hybrid sampling algorithm
The authors put forward a novel method with which to identify risk in consumer credit data and demonstrate its enhanced generalization ability compared to commonly used methods.
Capital One’s loan charge-offs surge 54% in Q4
Amount of credit cards and consumer loans getting written off approaches pre-pandemic levels
Forecasting consumer credit recovery failure: classification approaches
This study proposes an advanced credit evaluation method for nonperforming consumer loans, which may serve as a new investment opportunity in the post-pandemic era.
Retail payments and financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean: identifying gaps and opportunities
The payment aspects of financial inclusion (PAFI) framework, set up by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the World Bank in 2016, recommends a set of actions to spur financial inclusion by means of improvements in the retail payment…
The economics of debt collection, with attention to the issue of salience of collections at the time credit is granted
This paper considers the role of policies that protect consumers from aggressive debt collection tactics.
Bankcard performance during the Great Recession: a consumer-level analysis
This paper investigates factors associated with high credit card loss rates during the period 2008–11 associated with the Great Recession.
At Goldman Sachs, loan-loss provisions top $1bn
Loans up 11% in 2019, but provisions for credit losses surge 59%
Goldman adds $17bn of deposits in Q3
Consumer platform Marcus doubles deposits year-on-year
Default cascades and systemic risk on different interbank network topologies
This paper examines the relationship between the topology of interbank networks and their ability to propagate localized, idiosyncratic shocks across the banking sector via banks’ interbank claims on one another.
Are lenders using risk-based pricing in the Italian consumer loan market? The effect of the 2008 crisis
This paper analyzes whether in Italy the price of consumer loans is based on borrower-specific credit risk.
Santander loan-loss reserves eat into profits
Group-wide provisions pushed higher by the bank's US unit, which saw loan-loss reserves leap 44% to €649m over the quarter
Nonlinear relationships in a logistic model of default for a high-default installment portfolio
This paper uses data on consumer credit along with generalized additive models to analyze nonlinear relationships and their effect on predicting the probability of default in the context of consumer credit scoring.
Canadian CROs play down threat of mortgage exposure
Burgeoning loan portfolios no cause for concern despite Moody’s downgrades, risk chiefs claim
Consumer advocates urge financial regulators to share more data
Bafin neglecting consumers, conference speakers say
UK ombudsman joins clampdown on payday lending
Report from FOS highlights malpractice by loan middlemen
FCA's mis-selling focus switches to payday lenders
Misleading advertising common among high-interest loan providers
IT and consumer credit to be FCA focus in 2014
UK regulator lists risks for the year ahead
Top 10 op risks: tighter consumer regulation
The last in our series of top 10 op risks for 2014 looks at tighter consumer regulation. An industry plagued by scandal will now face closer regulatory attention on its retail side
Top 10 operational risks for 2014
Internal failures will prove as dangerous as external threats for the financial industry in 2014
