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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
24,015 Views
23 Pages

In recent years, after the global financial crisis, the issue of credit risk management has received increased attention from international regulators. Credit risk management frameworks are often not sufficiently integrated within the organization, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,803 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2025

The rapid growth of the consumer credit card market has introduced substantial regulatory and risk management challenges. To address these challenges, financial institutions increasingly adopt advanced machine learning models to improve default predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,929 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2024

Many industries put on a show of sustainability to draw in investors even though they are not financially viable. This study examines how real-earnings management (REM) moderates the relationship between credit risk (CR) and financial sustainability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,785 Views
19 Pages

18 May 2024

Online consumer credit services play a vital role in the contemporary consumer market. To foster their sustainable development, it is essential to establish and strengthen the relevant risk management mechanism. This study proposes an intelligent man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,362 Views
31 Pages

Improving Financial Sustainability Through Effective Credit Risk Management and Human Talent Development in Microfinance Institutions

  • Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez,
  • Vicente González-Prida,
  • Diana Pariona-Amaya,
  • Victoriano Eusebio Zacarías-Rodríguez,
  • Víctor Zacarías-Vallejos,
  • Sara Ricardina Zacarías-Vallejos,
  • Luis Alberto Aguilar-Cuevas and
  • Lisette Paola Campos-Carpena

This paper explores how credit risk management and human capital development sustain financial stability in microfinance institutions. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods allow this study to investigate credit risk management strategie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
16,793 Views
23 Pages

This study examined credit risk management and return on equity of Nigerian deposit money banks (DMBs) twelve (12) years (2010–2021) post-adoption of the common accounting year-end as mandated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2009. Our d...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3,114 Views
35 Pages

26 December 2024

This study investigates the prediction of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) default rates in Republic of Korea by comparing the performance of three prominent time-series forecasting models: ARIMA, SARIMA, and Prophet. The research utilizes a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,851 Views
23 Pages

Fostering Carbon Credits to Finance Wildfire Risk Reduction Forest Management in Mediterranean Landscapes

  • Fermín Alcasena,
  • Marcos Rodrigues,
  • Pere Gelabert,
  • Alan Ager,
  • Michele Salis,
  • Aitor Ameztegui,
  • Teresa Cervera and
  • Cristina Vega-García

19 October 2021

Despite the need for preserving the carbon pools in fire-prone southern European landscapes, emission reductions from wildfire risk mitigation are still poorly understood. In this study, we estimated expected carbon emissions and carbon credits from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,577 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Risk Management in Credit Rating Agencies

  • A. Seetharaman,
  • Vikas Kumar Sahu,
  • A. S. Saravanan,
  • John Rudolph Raj and
  • Indu Niranjan

21 September 2017

An empirical study was conducted to determine the impact of different types of risk on the performance management of credit rating agencies (CRAs). The different types of risks were classified as operational, market, business, financial, and credit....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,448 Views
15 Pages

Modeling of Bank Credit Risk Management Using the Cost Risk Model

  • Iryna Yanenkova,
  • Yuliia Nehoda,
  • Svetlana Drobyazko,
  • Andrii Zavhorodnii and
  • Lyudmyla Berezovska

This article deals with the issue of managing bank credit risk using a cost risk model. Modeling of bank credit risk management was proposed based on neural-cell technologies, which expand the possibilities of modeling complex objects and processes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,397 Views
16 Pages

This paper considers the impact of the composition of the top management team on the credit default risk of the firm. Finance theory suggests that shareholders prefer higher levels of risk than the risk-averse executives managing the firm. Increasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,035 Views
15 Pages

Nigerian banks encounter persistent difficulties in efficiently managing and disclosing credit and liquidity risks, considerably affecting their financial performance and shareholders’ confidence. This study, therefore, examined the effect of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,074 Views
11 Pages

This study investigated the impact of banking management on credit risk using a sample of Indian commercial banks. The study employed dynamic panel estimations to evaluate the link between banking management variables and credit risk. The empirical r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,024 Views
21 Pages

In credit risk, scoring models based on logistic regression have been developed to optimize the default risk assessment. However, these models require complex feature engineering, and their accuracy worsens as the arrears progresses. This study propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
374 Views
19 Pages

Credit Risk Management Dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian Rural Banks

  • Moch Doddy Ariefianto,
  • Triasesiarta Nur and
  • Bryna Meivitawanli

4 January 2026

This paper investigates credit risk management as a dynamic system. Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) is employed to model interrelationships among four key components: Non-Performing Loans (NPLs), Loan Loss Provision (LLP), loan charge-off (LCO) an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
555 Views
20 Pages

24 December 2025

Financial institutions increasingly rely on data-driven decision systems; however, many operational models remain purely predictive, failing to account for confounding biases inherent in observational data. In credit settings characterized by selecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,331 Views
23 Pages

Credit Risk Management of Property Investments through Multi-Criteria Indicators

  • Marco Locurcio,
  • Francesco Tajani,
  • Pierluigi Morano,
  • Debora Anelli and
  • Benedetto Manganelli

2 June 2021

The economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the banks in their disbursement of mortgages which caused the spread of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) with underlying real estate. With the methods stated by the Basel III agreements, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,473 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2021

This paper addresses the problem of modeling credit risk for multi-product and global loan portfolios. The authors presented an improved version of the Basel Committee’s one-factor model for capital requirements calculation. They examined whether lat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,361 Views
17 Pages

4 March 2020

Credit operations are fundamental in the banks’ activities and provide a significant share of their income. Under an increased demand for credit resources, credit risks are growth. It keeps the importance of the problem of an increase in the efficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2025

This study aims to analyze text data obtained from Turkish phone calls to manage credit risk in the banking sector and predict whether customers will fulfill their payment promises. Data cleaning was identified as a critical step to improve the quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
915 Views
13 Pages

11 April 2025

Traditionally, business risk management models have not taken into consideration household composition for the purposes of credit granting or project financing in order to manage the risk of default. In this research, an improvement in the risk manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,906 Views
16 Pages

Incorporating Sustainability Considerations into Lending Decisions and the Management of Bad Loans: Evidence from Greece

  • Theodosios Anagnostopoulos,
  • Antonis Skouloudis,
  • Nadeem Khan and
  • Konstantinos Evangelinos

12 December 2018

The financial sector’s role is undeniably crucial in modern economies. Yet, this sector often attracts criticisms. Of particular concern is the negligence of proper credit risk management, which may undermine (macro)economic stability. The abse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,437 Views
12 Pages

8 September 2015

Risk management is one of the most important branches of business and finance. Classification models are the most popular and widely used analytical group of data mining approaches that can greatly help financial decision makers and managers to tackl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,241 Views
26 Pages

17 June 2025

Accurate corporate credit ratings are essential for financial risk assessment; yet, traditional methodologies relying on manual evaluation and basic statistical models often fall short in dynamic economic conditions. This study investigated the poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,243 Views
30 Pages

Designing an Intelligent Scoring System for Crediting Manufacturers and Importers of Goods in Industry 4.0

  • Mohsin Ali,
  • Abdul Razaque,
  • Joon Yoo,
  • Uskenbayeva Raissa Kabievna,
  • Aiman Moldagulova,
  • Satybaldiyeva Ryskhan,
  • Kalpeyeva Zhuldyz and
  • Aizhan Kassymova

Background: The modern credit card system is critical, but it has not been fully examined to meet the unique financial needs of a constantly changing number of manufacturers and importers. Methods: An intelligent credit card system integrates the fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
266 Citations
67,845 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2021

This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and corporate financial performance. Specifically, we study various individual ESG categories, both ESG strengths and concerns, and aggregate ESG factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Citations
79,861 Views
22 Pages

5 March 2019

There is an increasing influence of machine learning in business applications, with many solutions already implemented and many more being explored. Since the global financial crisis, risk management in banks has gained more prominence, and there has...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
13,795 Views
29 Pages

The intricate relationship between financial fraud and credit risk, and their combined impact on banking stability, is a vital and under-researched aspect of financial system integrity. To fill this knowledge gap, this study embarked on a thorough bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,879 Views
15 Pages

30 January 2019

Roughly a decade ago, the Chinese government implemented a green credit policy aimed at lowering emissions from highly polluting corporations through improving information disclosure quality during the loan process. According to policy guidelines, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,408 Views
24 Pages

What Rainfall Does Not Tell Us—Enhancing Financial Instruments with Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture and Evaporative Stress

  • Markus Enenkel,
  • Carlos Farah,
  • Christopher Hain,
  • Andrew White,
  • Martha Anderson,
  • Liangzhi You,
  • Wolfgang Wagner and
  • Daniel Osgood

16 November 2018

Advanced parametric financial instruments, like weather index insurance (WII) and risk contingency credit (RCC), support disaster-risk management and reduction in the world’s most disaster-prone regions. Simultaneously, satellite data that are...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Interpretable Multi-Model Framework for Early Warning of SME Loan Delinquency

  • Ardak Akhmetova,
  • Assem Shayakhmetova and
  • Nurken Abdurakhmanov
Risks2026, 14(2), 25;https://doi.org/10.3390/risks14020025 
(registering DOI)

31 January 2026

The rapid expansion of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending has intensified the need for accurate and interpretable credit risk forecasting. Financial institutions must anticipate potential business loan delinquency to maintain portfolio stabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,695 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2019

A recently introduced accounting standard, namely the International Financial Reporting Standard 9, requires banks to build provisions based on forward-looking expected loss models. When there is a significant increase in credit risk of a loan, addit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,642 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2022

This study examines macroeconomic risk factors to investigate how they affect working capital management (WCM) and, ultimately, firm performance. Additionally, we examine the effect of credit default swaps (CDSs) as a countermeasure for WCM in the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,262 Views
11 Pages

Credit Risk Management and US Bank-Holding Companies: An Empirical Investigation

  • Kudret Topyan,
  • Chia-Jane Wang,
  • Natalia Boliari and
  • Carlos Elias

This paper empirically evaluates the impact of ownership structure on the cost of credit in US banks. It does so by comparing their grouped option-adjusted credit spreads on the outstanding debt issues. As the overall risk of the creditors is reflect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
16,965 Views
22 Pages

Credit risk measurement remains a critical field of top priority in banking finance, directly implicated in the recent global financial crisis. This paper examines the dynamic linkages between credit risk migration due to rating shifts and prevailin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,452 Views
14 Pages

16 November 2023

Unsupervised classification is used in credit risk assessment to reduce human resource costs and make informed decisions in the shortest possible time. Although several studies show that support vector machine-based methods have better performance in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,440 Views
17 Pages

This research explores the impact of financial indicators on the credit ratings of companies listed on the S&P 500, employing a Sys-GMM model to address endogeneity concerns. Three independent variables categorized as market and survival factors...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,187 Views
30 Pages

The Optimum Leverage Level of the Banking Sector

  • Sagara Dewasurendra,
  • Pedro Judice and
  • Qiji Zhu

1 May 2019

Banks make profits from the difference between short-term and long-term loan interest rates. To issue loans, banks raise funds from capital markets. Since the long-term loan rate is relatively stable, but short-term interest is usually variable, ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,950 Views
72 Pages

A challenge in enterprise risk measurement for diversified financial institutions is developing a coherent approach to aggregating different risk types. This has been motivated by rapid financial innovation, developments in supervisory standards (Bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,325 Views
15 Pages

Scoring Models and Credit Risk: The Case of Cooperative Banks in Poland

  • Krzysztof Kil,
  • Radosław Ciukaj and
  • Justyna Chrzanowska

13 July 2021

The aim of the research presented in the article was to analyse the legitimacy of the use of scoring models in banking activities, together with the assessment of the effectiveness of this tool in reducing the high value of the NPL ratio in Polish co...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,942 Views
35 Pages

Contingent Convertible Debt: The Impact on Equity Holders

  • Delphine Boursicot,
  • Geneviève Gauthier and
  • Farhad Pourkalbassi

29 April 2019

Contingent Convertible (CoCo) is a hybrid debt issued by banks with a specific feature forcing its conversion to equity in the event of the bank’s financial distress. CoCo carries two major risks: the risk of default, which threatens any type o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,222 Views
25 Pages

28 November 2024

The Solvency II regulatory framework requires European insurance companies to guarantee their solvability and stability by retaining enough Own Funds to cover future unexpected losses at a given confidence level. A Standard Formula approach is provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,691 Views
21 Pages

In numerous Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, the global financial crisis as well as the unpegging of the foreign exchange rate of the Swiss franc (CHF) against the euro amplified the repayment troubles of households with the outstanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,555 Views
11 Pages

27 January 2022

Previous research indicates that small-loan financing is a highly complex process, particularly when public sources provide financial support. This study applies propensity score matching to improve the effectiveness of closer inspection systems. Spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,636 Views
19 Pages

Empowering South African Smallholder Farmers: Integrating Climate Resilience into Credit Assessment

  • Nomonde Jonas,
  • Mzuyanda Christian,
  • Sifiso Ntombela and
  • Simon Letsoalo

2 January 2025

Agriculture, a sector vulnerable to climate change, relies heavily on debt to invest in modern technology for efficiency and increased production in the face of changing climatic conditions. Despite this, a large group of smallholder farmers in South...

  • Article
  • Open Access
180 Citations
24,005 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Green Lending on Credit Risk in China

  • Yujun Cui,
  • Sean Geobey,
  • Olaf Weber and
  • Haiying Lin

14 June 2018

This study explores China’s green credit policy from a credit risk perspective. Green finance has been growing rapidly in China since the government issued its Green Credit Policy. The objective of this study is to explore whether green loans a...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
135 Views
1 Page

Correction: Moreno-Menéndez et al. (2025). Improving Financial Sustainability Through Effective Credit Risk Management and Human Talent Development in Microfinance Institutions. International Journal of Financial Studies, 13(2), 60

  • Fabricio Miguel Moreno-Menéndez,
  • Vicente González-Prida,
  • Diana Pariona-Amaya,
  • Victoriano Eusebio Zacarías-Rodríguez,
  • Víctor Zacarías-Vallejos,
  • Sara Ricardina Zacarías-Vallejos,
  • Luis Alberto Aguilar-Cuevas and
  • Lisette Paola Campos-Carpena

In the published paper [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,616 Views
19 Pages

19 May 2021

COVID-19 has created a strong demand for supply chain finance (SCF) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, the rapid development of SCF leads to more complex credit risks. How to effectively discriminate and manage SMEs to reduce cre...

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