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Explainability and Fairness in Machine Learning for Credit Underwriting


Overview

Lending decisions informed by credit underwriting models affect the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. The emerging use of machine learning models has the potential to increase credit access by more accurately identifying applicants who are likely to repay loans and to reduce the number of people given loans that they are unlikely to repay. However, the “black box” nature of many machine learning models has focused attention on model transparency as a critical threshold question for both lenders and regulators.

FinRegLab joined forces with researchers from the Stanford Graduate School of Business to evaluate the capabilities, limitations, and performance of proprietary and open-source tools designed to help lenders address these transparency challenges.



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