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Moody's Machine Learning Case Study

Moody's Machine Learning Case Study

Carlos Salas

Portfolio Manager and Data Scientist

Let’s see how a credit rating agency used machine learning model training. Join Carlos Salas as he explores how data science and machine learning can be used in finance to improve credit scoring tools.

Let’s see how a credit rating agency used machine learning model training. Join Carlos Salas as he explores how data science and machine learning can be used in finance to improve credit scoring tools.

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Moody's Machine Learning Case Study

5 mins 12 secs

Key learning objectives:

  • Understand how Moody’s use machine learning

Overview:

Moody’s is a credit rating agency who compared their internal parametric model against several machine learning models to assess the credit risk of small and medium-sized corporate borrowers. This assessment yielded surprising results, with the machine learning models outperforming Moody’s model.

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Summary

How has Moody’s used data science?

Moody’s is a credit rating agency who compared their internal parametric model against several machine learning models to assess the credit risk of small and medium-sized corporate borrowers. Moody’s proprietary model uses a traditional parametric general additive framework (GAM). The alternative machine learning models used were random forest, boosting, and neural networks. Two different datasets were used for the comparison study. The first dataset utilises only firm information and financial ratios, while the second dataset adds additional data to the first such as behavioural information including credit line usage, loan payment behaviour, and other alternative data.

Generalisation results were impressive with machine learning models outperforming Moody’s proprietary model from 2 to 3% using both datasets. There is also an 8-10% jump in accuracy when adding loan behavioural information.

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Carlos Salas

Carlos Salas

Carlos Salas is a professional investor passionate about the lifelong development of an investment process that blends man and machine. Over the last 15 years, he has worked in investment roles for firms such as Santander AM, BNP Paribas, Jefferies, and LCAM. He is currently pursuing three careers simultaneously - as an investment manager, consultant and lecturer.

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