In later editions of “Credit Scoring and Its Applications,” Thomas directly addressed and algorithmic fairness .
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SMEs often lack financial statements. Thomas’s transactional scoring —using bank account turnover, supplier payment patterns, and even Amazon seller metrics—has become the backbone of platforms like Kabbage, OnDeck, and Stripe Capital. His 2021 paper on “Cash-flow based scoring for the informal economy” is required reading at Y Combinator. In later editions of “Credit Scoring and Its
Lenders are now using LLMs (Large Language Models) to generate synthetic borrower histories to train models where real data is scarce (e.g., pandemic-era defaults). supplier payment patterns