Reinventing Retail Lending Analytics provides a practical guide to retail lending analytics and the risk assessment and risk management involved. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 has exposed the frailty of the most common retail lending models. However, contrary to news headlines, not all the models failed during this crisis. This book describes the components necessary for creating robust and effective models for portfolio performance diagnostics, forecasting, stress testing and economic capital. These concepts are also extended to account-level scoring to show how to move from simple rank-ordering to scenario-based prediction of default probabilities for individual loans. All retail loan types are considered, including the modeling of securitized pools and implications for Basel II. This book describes retail models in simple language yet it goes beyond just describing implementation as the majority of the book is filled with best practices from the author s 15 years of experience in the industry and a wide range of industry examples