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Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks
Journal of Big Data
  • Maher Ala’raj, Zayed University
  • Maysam F. Abbod, Brunel University London
  • Munir Majdalawieh, Zayed University
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0001-9315-0670

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Abstract

With the rapid growth of consumer credit and the huge amount of financial data developing effective credit scoring models is very crucial. Researchers have developed complex credit scoring models using statistical and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to help banks and financial institutions to support their financial decisions. Neural networks are considered as a mostly wide used technique in finance and business applications. Thus, the main aim of this paper is to help bank management in scoring credit card clients using machine learning by modelling and predicting the consumer behaviour with respect to two aspects: the probability of single and consecutive missed payments for credit card customers. The proposed model is based on the bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) model to give the probability of a missed payment during the next month for each customer. The model was trained on a real credit card dataset and the customer behavioural scores are analysed using classical measures such as accuracy, Area Under the Curve, Brier score, Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and H-measure. Calibration analysis of the LSTM model scores showed that they can be considered as probabilities of missed payments. The LSTM model was compared to four traditional machine learning algorithms: support vector machine, random forest, multi-layer perceptron neural network, and logistic regression. Experimental results show that, compared with traditional methods, the consumer credit scoring method based on the LSTM neural network has significantly improved consumer credit scoring.

Disciplines
Keywords
  • Behavioural scoring,
  • Bidirectional LSTM,
  • Classification,
  • Neural networks
Scopus ID
85106211564
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Maher Ala’raj, Maysam F. Abbod and Munir Majdalawieh. "Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks" Journal of Big Data Vol. 8 Iss. 1 (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/munir-majdalawieh/19/