Although not a new concept, very few lending organisations have deployed a true multi-bureau strategy (MBS). It is however talked about fairly regularly, but often dismissed as “too hard” or “not important enough”. So why should you consider a multi-bureau strategy? What are the key considerations? How do you go about deploying a MBS? This blog hopes to address all these questions.

It has been a year and a half since the first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported from Wuhan, China. As we move into the third wave of the virus, there is an apparent dilution in both collection and recovery yields in the financial services sector, primarily because relief schemes and packages come to an end.

Propensity modelling attempts to predict the likelihood that visitors, leads and customers will perform certain actions. It’s a statistical approach that accounts for all the independent and confounding variables that affects said behaviour. The propensity score, then, is the actual probability that the visitor, lead, or customer will perform a certain action.