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The Banks That Win Will Not Take More Credit Risk. They Will Understand It Better

Banking interfaces are becoming easy to imitate. A competitor can copy a digital application journey, strip out paperwork and present a prequalified offer in seconds. The experience around a credit decision is far easier to reproduce than the decision itself. AI is reshaping that decision, but the opportunity is not to relax standards or approve more applicants because a model is more complex. It is to separate customers who present genuine risk from customers who only appear risky because the bank does not understand them well enough.