AI-BAAM: AI-Driven Bank Statement Analytics as Alternative Data for Malaysian MSME Credit Scoring

By Chun Chet Ng, Zhen Hao Chu, Jia Yu Lim, Yin Yin Boon, Wei Zeng Low, Jin Khye Tan

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1264
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Relevance

2/10
The paper is primarily focused on credit risk assessment and financial inclusion for MSMEs, not on trading strategies or market prediction. However, the use of transaction-level cash flow data, WOE/IV feature engineering, and ML-based risk scoring has tangential relevance to credit risk modeling in portfolio management contexts. The methodology is not directly applicable to quantitative trading strategies.

Implementation Complexity

7/10
The full AI-BAAM pipeline involves six interconnected modules (key information extraction, transaction table extraction, fraud analysis, network analysis, cash flow analysis, and scoring layer) requiring OCR, computer vision, NLP, graph algorithms, and ML. The template matching approach requires bank-specific layout definitions. WOE/IV feature engineering with supervised monotonic binning adds complexity. However, the core credit scoring model (Logistic Regression) is straightforward. The end-to-end system requires significant engineering effort for production deployment with CI/CD, model registry, and monitoring infrastructure.

Reproducibility

3/5
The modeling pipeline, feature engineering methodology, and evaluation protocol are documented in detail. All ML models use scikit-learn with specified hyperparameters. WOE/IV-based feature transformation and supervised monotonic binning are formally described. However, the dataset is not publicly available due to contractual obligations and Malaysia's PDPA. Feature derivation logic is protected under NDA. An anonymized dataset is planned for future release. The template matching method is proprietary and not open-sourced.

About this paper

Methodology: AI-BAAM Cash Flow Underwriting Pipeline. Problem types: Classification, Imbalanced Learning, Risk Management, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing.

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