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Banking · mid-2010s
A major Brazilian financial institution
- Problem
- Improve credit decision quality across the lifecycle while keeping risk and delinquency under control.
- Role
- Data scientist on credit risk and decision engines.
- Approach
- Application and behaviour scoring, portfolio monitoring, expected-loss thinking, and policy alignment.
- Impact
- Stronger decision discipline and risk-aware origination across the credit lifecycle.
- Lessons
- Durable credit outcomes come from policy and monitoring, not from a single model.
Related capabilities
- Credit risk decisioning
- Applied machine learning
- IFRS 9 & expected loss
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