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Moody’s Analytics Webinar: New Generation

of Credit DecisioningNext Generation Capability

22 May 2018

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Nelson Almeida – CreditLens™

Jamie Stark – Alternative Data in Credit

Scoring and Decisioning

Agenda

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• Lack of

automated credit approval process

• Inability to

accurately assess exposures

• Lack of pricing model

• Manual data entry

of information in credit

presentation template

• Inability to

automatically generate letters

and notifications to customers

• Inability to store

and archive documents

• Inability to track

and produce documents for

legal and compliance

purposes

• Lack of early

warning signs for covenant

breaches and defaults

• Lack of a risk and

reporting dashboard

• Manual and

excel-based calculations for

spreading, scoring or pricing

• Lack of a scoring

model that reflects the

business factors

• Lack of dual risk-

ratings

• Inability to benchmark

against industry peers

• Lack of an automated business rules engine with integrated workflow functionality

Pain Points Cited by Banks in Lending

Loan

Process

Front-office Middle-office Back-office

Credit Assessment Documentation & Booking

Monitoring & Portfolio Management

Servicing & Collections

Information Gathering

Credit Decisioning and Loan Structuring

• Manual data

entry: duplication of data entry and

errors

• Inability to auto-import financial

data directly from 3rd party sources

• Lack of sufficient data on

borrowers/low quality data

• Slow availability

of borrower data

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The Challenges with Legacy Systems

and Processes

Characteristic Impact Bottom Line

Limited Coordination of

Resources

Manual and Paper

Based Processes

Slow “Time to Decision” and

“Time to Cash”

No Single and Consistent

Source of Truth

Inconsistent Credit

Underw riting Processes

Duplicate Data Entry

Aging Systems

Architecture

Lack of Integration w ith

Risk Appetite

Disparate Sources of

Risk Data

Delayed Covenant

Tracking

Incomplete Portfolio

Management Reports

Poor Data Integrity

Sub-Optimal Risk and

Performance Assessment

Rear View Mirror Approach

Competitive Disadvantage

Inability to Respond to

Regulatory Requirements

Timely and Accurately

Unintended Risk

Concentrations

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Credit Decisoning

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The Future of Business Lending

Information Gathering

CreditAssessment

Credit Presentation & Loan Structuring

Customer information is auto-populated from external data sources

Pre-screening and peer benchmarking

information is instantly available

Tasks and timelines are assigned automatically

Where appropriate, credit presentation template is automatically selected

Financial information, third party reports, and other details are automatically populated in the credit

presentation

Pricing is recommended based on factors

chosen by the lender

Streamlined approval ,focus on outliers

Required documentation is captured electronically in the process

A loan is packaged and sent electronically to the customer for e-signature

Signed documentation is stored and archived

Customer credit quality and scores are tracked electronically based on data feeds

Customers receive automatic notifications when items are due

Credits for review are identified based on score or behavior change triggers

Data is centralized and accessible for business intelligence reporting

Personalized dashboards enable real-time tracking of risk, portfolio, process metrics

Peer and industry data feeds to dashboards for benchmarking

Decisioning & Documentation

Serv icing& Collections

Monitoring & Portfolio Management

Credit model and analysis requirements are automatically selected by borrower profile and needs

Most credit decisions are automated, with option for manual review

Spreads, where needed, are automated

Data collection is automated, streamlined, and consistently appliedWorkflow updates automatically based on completed tasksNotifications are provided when tasks are due and past due

Time-in-process is tracked and analyzed to drive efficiency

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2 Meeting the Challenge

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The CreditLens™ Vision

Credit Risk Solutions

• A frictionless environment

• Consistent control of risk

• Seamless automation & integration

• Leverage new technology

Credit

PresentationCustomer

Management

Decisioning

& Approvals

Credit

Analysis

Customer Engagement

Covenants/

Monitoring

Portfolio Risk

Management

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Example: Illustrated Financial Spreading

Savings*

80%Time Reduction

225k-

375kEquivalent cost saving

7,500Hours saved p.a.

*Based on 50 w eeks, 25 RM’s each taking 2.5 hours to re-enter 5 years of f inancial statements in support of c3 review s per w eek. Costs based on $30-50 per hour.

Time per case drops from 2.5 hrs to 0.5 hrs.

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Golden Source of Risk DataMaintain a single, auditable golden source repository of credit and risk-

related data with workflow enablement to apply simple business rules,

such as automated rating model selection and mandatory data capture

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With Deeper Insight and Control of the

Entire RelationshipEntity Management

» Dedicated entity management

module provides core building

block

» Construct relationship

structures pivotal to accurate

risk assessment

» Tune and validate data capture

in accordance with entity type

– improving data strength and

quality

» Control and distribute risk

grades within a relationship

Provides a consistent and complete view for risk assessment

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AnalyticsPowerful financial analysis and risk grading developed over

30 years

» Probability of Default and Loss Given

Default measures

» Industry standard and custom ratio analysis

» Multiple accounting templates available to

support regional and industry specific

accounting standards

» Integration with our +35 industry and

regional specific market leading RiskCalc

models, which leverage the largest global

database of private company financial

information

» Integration with internal, regulator approved

models, or statistical platforms such as ‘R’.

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Deal Structuring ScreensFacilities

Collateral

Guarantees

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Resolve scenarios of different complexity

Flexible Routing Patterns – to meet

most business needs

» Highly predictable and repeatable

business scenarios

– Relatively small scale customer

– Limited number of business departments

– Repeatable business activities

» Unpredictable and unrepeatable

business scenarios

– Large scale customer

– A number of business departments

– Complex business activities without a standardized pattern

» Hybrid business scenarios

CreditLen’s

Scope

Collaborative

Hybrid

Sequential

More

Fle

xible

and A

uto

mation

More Complex

Business ComplexitySME Corporate

Business

Process

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Credit Presentation and MemoCapturing the data and presenting in the Bank’s format

Credit Presentation & Credit Memo

Credit Presentation Module

Credit Memo (Output)

Credit Memo Configuration

Credit Presentation Configuration

Credit

Presentation

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Consolidate and inform

Credit Presentation and Memo

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CreditLens Covenants Meets the Markets

Needs

» Automate compliance checking

» Monitor early-warning indicators

» Improve credit origination practices

Integrated

Data

Source

MARQ

Portal

CreditLens

Business Modules

BvD

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Covenants Overview

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Tracking & TestingAn overall view of statuses of all active covenants

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Business InsightsVisualize data with integrated and intuitive dashboards for

different users from credit analysts to executive management

and auditors, providing business intelligence across your

team and the entire organization

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Deployment OptionsThree approaches:

Private Cloud

» CreditLens is hosted by

Moody’s infrastructure

Public Cloud

» CreditLens is hosted on a 3rd

party site

» E.g. Amazon AWS

» Datacenter in EU and or UK

On Premise

» CreditLens is installed on

client site, as RiskAnalyst is

currently

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Model Authoring Platform

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CreditLens Model Authoring Platform (MAP)

Model Inputs Model Outputs

R Server

CreditLens

PD/LGD

Ratings

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CreditLens Reduces Cost of Ownership

SaaS, Private and Commercial Cloud options

Cloud Deployment

Modular not Monolithic

Modular Licensing

Configuration not Customization

Powerful Configuration

Frictionless Standard Product Upgrades

Efficient Upgrades

Data Automation & Integration

Open Architecture

CreditLens architecture puts the customer back in control

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Benefits to Risk Management

Process EfficiencyIncreased collaboration, cleaner

data, improved communication and

automated tools reduce the ‘time

to decision’ and increase

productivity

Business Insight Sharper, focused and

comprehensive data reports

driving better business

decisions and allow ing

concentration on pro-active

risk assessment and

monitoring.

Operational RiskEliminate manual process and

f inancial statement re-entry

and duplication reducing

manual effort and increasing

the accuracy of data.

Consistency & ControlConsistent capture of f inancials,

approvals and overrides underpin

system integrity and helps

simplify oversight and internal

policy adherence.

Regulatory ComplianceEnforce high standards of

compliance in data governance,

credit assessment and risk

management

Provisions & LossesIncreasing understanding of

credit risk and early detection

of w arning signals through

enhanced monitoring. Reduce

probability of losses via more

robust risk management

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Benefitting the Bottom Line

ProfitBetter data governance,

accurate risk assessment and

increased transparency equals

higher quality loans and

improved pricing for risk

Technology/Cyber Trust your critical business

operations to advanced, reliable

and proven technological

architecture and IT .

CultureTransition to a more modern

business environment utilizing the

latest technology. Enables further

positive cultural advancement in the

origanization

Customer SatisfactionFew er information requests, faster

turnaround times and increased quality

time w ith Relationship Managers. Interact

digitally at a client convenient time

Revenue & GrowthGenerate additional capacity to w rite

more loans by reducing processing

time and increasing collaboration

amongst the deal team

Credit RiskA modern w ay to originate,

assess and manage credit

leading to better risk

management and compliance.

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3 Looking Forward

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Moody’s Analytics Spreading SolutionA comprehensive set of data, tools and services

BvD Orbis

Financials for public and private

companies

Dedicated teams of spreading

analysts

Automated spreading of PDF

documents

Tax Reader ML Spreading MAKS

Data extraction from customers’ general ledger

Automated data extraction from tax

forms

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Bureau van Dijk

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Gather loan application data digitally and automate spreading.

MARQ™ portal

Secure relationship management

CreditLens™ / Lending Cloud

Automated spreading & scoring

MARQ™ online loan

application

Instantaneous account linking

Online & Desktop

BORROWER tools BORROWER-LENDER interface LENDER tools

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Spreading Automation

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Moody’s Analytics Spreading SolutionA comprehensive set of data, tools and services

BvD Orbis

Financials for public and private

companies

Dedicated teams of spreading

analysts

Automated spreading of PDF

documents

Tax Reader ML spreading MAKS

Data extraction from customers’ general ledger

Automated data extraction from tax

forms

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4 Alternative Data in

Credit Scoring

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MotivationRole of Alternative Data in Credit Scoring and Decisioning

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Understand credit relevance embedded in text

Introduction

Text based

information

Credit relevance

scoreCredit relevance

model

Highlight relevant news

and reviews

Company Research

Scan feeds to detect

increased risk

Early Warning Indicator

Improve traditional credit

risk models

Improve Models

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MethodTrain model on historic text sources

Credit relevance

model

Cutting edge AI researchWorld leading Credit Risk

expertise, historic data and

models

Text Mining & Machine

Learning techniques

Large collection of machine

readable text

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Disclaimer

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5 News

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6 Social Media

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Improve Default PredictionPreliminary research yields promising results

52%Performance*

of RiskCalc

60%Performance of

RiskCalc

+

Sentiment

Scoring Model

* Accuracy ratio calculated on matched sample of firms with both Social Media

Reviews and RiskCalc EDFs containing 6588 observations with 41 defaults.

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7 What’s next?

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8 And Finally

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Introducing the Data AllianceShare Data, Gain Insight, Take Action

Commercial & Industrial

Commercial Real Estate Asset Finance

Project Finance

A collaborative effort providing high quality credit risk insights

for portfolio-level benchmarking and data augmentation

https://dataalliance.moodysanalytics.com/

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Nelson Almeida

[email protected]

moodysanalytics.com

Jamie Stark

[email protected]

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