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Course Outline

AI in Credit Risk: Foundations and Opportunities

  • Traditional models vs AI-driven credit risk frameworks
  • Navigating challenges in credit assessment: bias, explainability, and fairness
  • Real-world case studies illustrating AI in lending

Data for Credit Scoring Models

  • Data sources: transactional, behavioural, and alternative datasets
  • Data cleansing and feature engineering for informed lending decisions
  • Addressing class imbalance and data scarcity in risk forecasting

Machine Learning for Credit Scoring

  • Logistic regression, decision trees, and random forests
  • Gradient boosting techniques (LightGBM, XGBoost) for enhanced scoring precision
  • Strategies for model training, validation, and parameter tuning

AI-Driven Lending Workflows

  • Automating borrower segmentation and loan risk evaluation
  • AI-assisted underwriting and approval procedures
  • Dynamic pricing and interest rate optimisation via ML

Model Interpretability and Responsible AI

  • Explaining predictions using SHAP and LIME
  • Ensuring fairness in credit models: detecting and mitigating bias
  • Adherence to regulatory standards (e.g. ECOA, GDPR)

Generative AI in Lending Scenarios

  • Leveraging LLMs for application review and document analysis
  • Prompt engineering for effective borrower communication and insight generation
  • Synthetic data creation for model testing

Strategy and Governance for AI in Credit

  • Developing in-house AI capabilities vs adopting external solutions
  • Model lifecycle management and governance best practices
  • Emerging trends: real-time credit scoring and open banking integration

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of credit risk fundamentals
  • Practical experience with data analysis or business intelligence platforms
  • Basic knowledge of Python or a readiness to learn fundamental syntax

Intended Audience

  • Lending managers
  • Credit analysts
  • Fintech innovators
 14 Hours

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