Service overview
Scoring card calibration

A score is assigned based on an assessment of probability of some event such as a customer’s transition to 90+ DPD within the next 12 months or a refusal of some service, etc. We use a score predicting a borrower’s chances of going into a particular DPD category at some point.
The score is likelihood of a loan applicant’s becoming a “bad borrower.” It helps you range applicants so you only accept those most likely to pay back the loan. Past credit history lets the bank get a numerical estimate of future charge-offs.
Sooner or later a score’s quality (accuracy at predicting default) inevitably declines. This must happen as macroeconomics and client demographics change, the bank and competition redraw their policies and so on. But new information about a client, e.g., from a credit history company, can improve a score’s quality. This is why most banks routinely recompile score cards using latest and larger arrays trying to detect precisely the default possibility. But building a new score card and implementing it is usually difficult, and implementing it involves certain risks. It is much easier to amend a score by a process called “score card calibration”.
Calibration is basically a linear transformation to “fix” the score. For example, actual updated data on overdue interest are compared with the score’s predictions, a correction coefficient is set. Scoring card calibration via linear transformation is something RRAS excels at. The system can make use of all available statistics, including data on young vintages (mob <12).
Calibration, however, only solves some precision problems when estimating the default possibility. If a score’s ability to range clients (Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistics or, say, divergence value) declines, the score card will have to be rebuilt.
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