Dr. Bart Baesens is a professor of Big Data & Analytics at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), and is a co-author of the paper "The Value of Big Data for Credit Scoring: Enhancing Financial Inclusion using Mobile Phone Data and Social Network Analytics". In this interview, we discuss how mobile phone calling patterns can be used to predict borrowing behavior for people with no prior credit history.

Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09931