Tag: Unbanked

On the Rise of the FinTechs—Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints

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This paper evaluates users’ digital footprints or the information that people leave online by accessing or registering a website to predict consumers’ likelihood of default. Using more than 250,000 observations, the authors show that information gleaned from people’s digital footprint can be equal to or even exceed the information content of credit bureau scores.

FDIC Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 2018-04

Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombovic and Manju Puri

Data point: The geography of credit invisibility

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This paper examines geographic patterns to assess the extent to which where one resides is correlated with one’s likelihood of remaining credit invisible. The paper explores the following topics: credit deserts, credit invisibility in rural and urban areas, entry products by geography, and credit invisibility.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s Office of Research

Kenneth Brevoort, Jasper Clarkberg, Michelle Kambara, and Benjamin Litwin.

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