Abstract
The development of credit scoring is one of the key topics of attention in credit risk management in financial companies. However, a single approach to produce rating cards is frequently worthless since loan products differ in risk and financing time and often there is insufficient information on borrowers. The paper addresses the features of creating score cards for consumer credit, refinancing, small and medium businesses, auto loans, mortgage loans, fintech and P2P lending. Thus, the present work can be considered as the above comparative analysis of the most important elements influencing the probability of default of the borrower in the settlement by segments, together with the consideration of machine learning techniques and the use of alternative data sources that can improve the accuracy of the forecast. Depending on the usual credit product, the analysis lets one create recommendations for choosing the optimal approach of creating scoring cards, so enhancing the accuracy of the borrower’s creditworthiness projection and reducing the degree of default risk.