Measuring Credit Risk in a Quantitative way for Countryside Microfinance Institutions: Case study of China

Authors

  • Nadeem Iqbal Air University, Islamabad

Abstract

Credit scoring models (CSM) are very common in various financial institutions but in the microfinance industry it is a comparatively recent activity. The efficiency contribution of microfinance institutions towards default risk is to improve their competitiveness in an increasingly constrained environment and also reducing their cost. Now microfinance institutions measure and manage the credit risk in a quantitative way in order to gain competitiveness. In order to establish a CSM with sound predictive power, MFIs (microfinance institutions) choose models, identify variables, assign values to variables and reduce variable dimensions in an appropriate way. Microfinance institutions employ both CSM and loan officer’s subjective appraisals to improve risk management level gradually. A CSM model having a good classifying effect based on the data from some MFI’s in Jiangsu province has been produced as an illustration and it shows some variables play important roles in classification and need to pay much concern to reduce the predict the loan repayment credibility of the client and to manage credit risk.

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D’Espallier, B., Goedecke, J., Hudon, M., & Mersland, R. (2017). From NGOs to Banks: Does Institutional Transformation Alter the Business Model of Microfinance Institutions? World Development, 89, 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.06.021

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Gentile, C., Spiller, N., & Noci, G. (2007). How to Sustain the Customer Experience:. An Overview of Experience Components that Co-create Value With the Customer. European Management Journal, 25(5), 395–410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2007.08.005

Hall, A. T., Frink, D. D., & Buckley, M. R. (2017). An accountability account: A review and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical research on felt accountability. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(2), 204–224. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2052

Hansen, D. J., Monllor, J., & Shrader, R. C. (2016). Identifying the elements of entrepreneurial opportunity constructs: Recognizing what scholars are really examining. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 17(4), 240–255. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465750316671471

Hashim, N. H., Sultan, U., Abidin, Z., & Terengganu, K. (2014). Determinants Factor of Housing Loan / House Financing Pricing : Comparative Evaluation Between Conventional and Islamic Bank. International Journal Of Social Sciences, 19, 19–27.

Ismail, R., Rahman, R. A., & Ahmad, N. (2013). Risk Management Disclosure In Malaysian Islamic Financial Institutions: Pre-And Post-Financial Crisis. The Journal of Applied Business Research, 29(2), 419–432. Retrieved from http://www.cluteinstitute.com/

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James, G. M., & Hastie, T. J. (2001). Functional Linear Discriminant Analysis for Irregularly Sampled Curves. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 63(3), 533–550. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9868.00297

Khashei, M., Zeinal Hamadani, A., & Bijari, M. (2012). A fuzzy intelligent approach to the classification problem in gene expression data analysis. Knowledge-Based Systems, 27, 465–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2011.10.012

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Lopatta, K., Tchikov, M., Jaeschke, R., & Lodhia, S. (2017). Sustainable Development and Microfinance: The Effect of Outreach and Profitability on Microfinance Institutions’ Development Mission. Sustainable Development, 25(5), 386–399. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1663

Ngo, V. M., & Nguyen, H. H. (2016). The Relationship between Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty: An Investigation in Vietnamese Retail Banking Sector. Journal of Competitivenes, 8(2), 103–116. https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2016.02.08

Serrano-Cinca, C., Gutiérrez-Nieto, B., & Reyes, N. M. (2016). A social and environmental approach to microfinance credit scoring. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 3504–3513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.103

Shu-Teng, L., Zariyawati, M. A., Suraya-Hanim, M., & Annuar, M. N. (2015). Determinants of Microfinance Repayment Performance: Evidence from Small Medium Enterprises in Malaysia. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 7(11), 110. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v7n11p110

Singh, S., Murthi, B. P. S., & Steffes, E. (2013). Developing a measure of risk adjusted revenue (RAR) in credit cards market: Implications for customer relationship management. European Journal of Operational Research, 224(2), 425–434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.08.007

Smith, D. J. (2011). Reliability, Maintainability and Risk. Reliability, Maintainability and Risk, 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-096902-2.00003-9

Taddy, M. (2013). Multinomial inverse regression for text analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108(503), 755–770. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2012.734168

Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2016). Buffer capital in microfinance institutions. Journal of Business Research, 69(9), 3523–3537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.01.034

Todorov, V. (2007). Robust selection of variables in linear discriminant analysis. Statistical Methods and Applications, 15(3), 395–407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-006-0032-6

Treiblmaier, H., & Filzmoser, P. (2010). Exploratory factor analysis revisited: How robust methods support the detection of hidden multivariate data structures in IS research. Information and Management, 47(4), 197–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2010.02.002

Van Gestel, T., & Baesens, B. (2009). Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts Financial Risk Components, Rating Analysis, Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital. Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts Financial Risk Components, Rating Analysis, Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital (Vol. 9780199545117). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545117.001.0001

Widiarto, I., & Emrouznejad, A. (2015). Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions: A Data Envelopment Analysis application. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 50, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2014.12.001

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Iqbal, N. (2021). Measuring Credit Risk in a Quantitative way for Countryside Microfinance Institutions: Case study of China. CITY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH JOURNAL, 11(2). Retrieved from https://cusitjournals.com/index.php/CURJ/article/view/416

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