Delinquency Prediction

Retail Banking  ·  7 min read

Mortgage Delinquency: The Intervention That Works Is the One That Happens Before the Missed Payment

Early delinquency signals in mortgage portfolios are detectable in behavioral and transaction data weeks before a payment is missed. The intervention options available at that point are substantially broader, cheaper, and more likely to succeed than those available after the first missed payment. Most banks are not intervening at that point because they are not identifying the risk until it surfaces.