rbhatia46 / LendingClub-Loan-Analysis

Lending Club Loan Default Analysis using historic loan applications data.

LendingClub-Loan-Analysis

Lending loans to ‘risky’ applicants is the largest source of financial loss(called credit loss) for any bank/lending company. If we are able to identify these risky loan applicants, then such loans can be reduced thereby cutting down the amount of credit loss. Identification of such applicants using Data Analysis is the aim of this case study. Lending Club (a peer-to-peer lending company) wants to understand the driving factors behind loan default. The company can utilise this knowledge for its portfolio and risk assessment. 2 types of risks are associated with the bank’s decision:

• If the applicant is likely to repay the loan, then not approving the loan results in a loss of business to the company

• If the applicant is not likely to repay the loan, i.e. he/she is likely to default, then approving the loan may lead to a financial loss for the company

Data Used :

The data used was acquired from Kaggle, open-sourced by LendingClub itself to welcome Data Scientist help them identify driving factors behind loan default, using historic data of loan applications.

• Be sure to checkout the Data Dictionary for the meaning of each column in the dataset.

• The data given contains the information about past loan applicants and whether they ‘defaulted’ or not. The aim is to identify patterns which indicate if a person is likely to default, which may be used for taking actions such as denying the loan, reducing the amount of loan, lending (to risky applicants) at a higher interest rate, etc.

• When a person applies for a loan, there are 2 types of decisions that could be taken by the company:

  • Loan accepted - If the company approves the loan, there are 3 possible scenarios described below:
  1. Fully paid: Applicant has fully paid the loan (the principal and the interest rate)
  2. Current: Applicant is in the process of paying the installments, i.e. the tenure of the loan is not yet completed. These candidates are not labelled as 'defaulted'.
  3. Charged-off: Applicant has not paid the instalments in due time for a long period of time, i.e. he/she has defaulted on the loan.
  • Loan rejected - The company had rejected the loan (because the candidate does not meet their requirements etc.). Since the loan was rejected, there is no transactional history of those applicants with the company and so this data is not available with the company (and thus in this dataset)

• This project is typical a Data Exploration project and tries to find as much findings as possible without the use of any Machine Learning and just simple plain EDA and Data Visualization.

• The analysis and Visualizations in the notebook are self-explanatory to decide the driving factors for a new loan application and act accordingly.