NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Every two years since 2009, European universities in collaboration with the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) and supported by the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) have organised the European Research Conference on Microfinance. The Research Conference is a unique event that gathers together high-level researchers, academics, professionals, and students ensuring that the latest research on the sector is disseminated to the whole microfinance community. Further information on previous editions of the conference is available here.

Evidence shows women often demonstrate higher loan repayment rates than men, suggesting they are lower-risk borrowers and yet face higher barriers to loan approval. This presents an opportunity to refine lending models for more accurate risk assessment and increased financing to women.

CGAP’s latest research shows that, under certain conditions, employing gender-intentional credit scoring can help lenders more accurately measure portfolio risk and not only help reduce the gender gap in access to credit, and allow providers to increase their portfolios or reduce their losses.  Join us for a virtual workshop designed for lending service providers, credit risk managers, data scientists, and others working on credit scoring.

In this two-part session, we will cover:

• Part 1: Presentation on gender-intentional techniques and implementation strategies for credit scoring
• Part 2: Walk-through of how to implement the analyses using Excel, R, and Python

Note: Participants who don’t work on credit scoring may choose to sign up for Part 1 only.