{"id":23584,"date":"2020-03-18T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intellias.com\/?p=23584"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:07:56","slug":"mobile-data-machine-learning-better-credit-scoring-for-the-underbanked","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/mobile-data-machine-learning-better-credit-scoring-for-the-underbanked\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Data + Machine Learning = Better Credit Scoring for the Underbanked"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would you do if someone asked you to prove your identity and you\u2019d left your ID at home? You\u2019d probably reach for your mobile phone and fire up Facebook, LinkedIn, or your online banking app.<\/p>\n

Indeed, our phones now contain a huge part of our lives. Lenders could take advantage of all that mobile data to assign credit scores to people with little to no credit history.
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How big is the lending gap on a global scale?<\/h2>\n

Roughly 1.2 billion<\/a> people lack access to traditional financial services. But as we highlighted in our New Age in Banking Whitepaper<\/a>, unbanked does not equal insolvent.<\/p>\n