Motivation
The Lending Club goal is to minimize the investment risk of providing bad loans, the loans with a high probability of defaulting or being delayed, but also to avoid rejecting good loans and hence losing profits. Here, the main criterion is driven by accepted risk - how much risk Lending Club can accept to be still profitable.
Furthermore, for prospective loans, Lending Club needs to provide an appropriate interest rate reflecting risk and generating income or provide loan adjustments. Therefore, it follows that if a given loan has a high interest rate, we can possibly infer that there is more inherent risk than a loan with a lower interest rate.
In our book, we can benefit from the Lending Club experience since they provide historical ...
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