Credit Risk Modeling

West Africa Microfinance
Credit Risk Scorecard

Basel II-compliant scorecard built on 12,000 synthetic microfinance loans across 5 West African countries. Weight of Evidence feature selection, logistic regression with points conversion, validated with Gini, KS statistic, and Population Stability Index.

12,000Loan Records
13.3%Default Rate
$9.4MPortfolio Size
$786Avg Loan
0.268Gini (Test)
0.212KS Stat (Test)
Feature Selection

Information Value (IV)

IV measures the predictive power of each feature. Features with IV > 0.02 are selected for the scorecard. Strong predictors (IV > 0.3) may indicate over-fitting.

Strong (>0.3) Medium (0.1-0.3) Weak (0.02-0.1)
Scorecard

Logistic Regression Coefficients

Scorecard Parameters

Target Score600
Target Odds50:1
PDO20
Factor28.8539
Offset487.1229
Intercept-1.927315

Feature Coefficients

dti_ratio0.0000
previous_defaults-0.8506
dpd_history_days-0.4248
group_lending-1.0060
loan_amount_usd0.0000
has_collateral-0.9948
years_in_business-0.9254
loan_term_months-1.0720
previous_loans-0.4077
interest_rate_pct0.0000
Model Validation

Gini, KS, ROC, PSI

0.286Train Gini
0.268Test Gini
0.212Test KS
0.0020PSI (Stable)

ROC Curve

KS Curve

Score Analysis

Score Distribution by Band

Portfolio

Country and Sector Analysis

Default Rate by Country

Default Rate by Sector

Stress Testing

Economic Scenario Analysis

ScenarioIncome ShockStressed PDExpected LossCapital RequiredLoss Rate
Baseline0%13.3%$690,953.07$1,036,429.617.33%
Mild Stress-10%17.3%$898,238.99$1,347,358.499.53%
Severe Stress-25%24.0%$1,243,715.53$1,865,573.313.19%
Extreme-40%33.3%$1,727,382.68$2,591,074.0218.32%

Baseline: Current economic conditions

Mild Stress: Moderate slowdown: 10% income drop, 30% rise in defaults

Severe Stress: Regional crisis: 25% income drop, currency devaluation, crop failure

Extreme: Pandemic-scale disruption: 40% income drop, supply chain collapse