Toward an Efficient and Effective Credit Scorer for Cross-Border E-Commerce Enterprises

Abstract

Building an efficient and effective credit scorer for enterprises is an important and urgent demand in the cross-border e-commerce industry. In this paper, we present a framework to build a credit scorer using e-commerce data integrated from various sources. First, an improved dependency graph approach is proposed to recognize distinct records in the dataset. Then, we apply logistic regression using a prejudice remover regularizer to train the model, preceded by predictor preparation through binning and evaluating their information value. Lastly, we build the credit scorer according to the coefficients of the model. We implement our framework on a dataset from the official customs database and a large cross-border e-commerce platform. The empirical results demonstrate that the scorer built by our methodology can be used to effectively evaluate enterprises, while also removing prejudice against small and medium enterprises to a certain extent.