Thin-File Credit Scoring ยท Asia

Score borrowers your bureau data can't see.

Panthera extracts cash-flow signals and repayment patterns from alternative data to score thin-file borrowers in Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, the applicants your current model rejects without review.

Cash-flow signal analysis interface showing alternative data credit scoring for thin-file borrowers
The Credit Gap

Bureau coverage stops at the formal economy.

In Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan combined, more than 500 million adults have thin or absent credit files. They hold jobs, receive income, and repay small obligations every day. Standard bureau scoring simply can't see any of it.

500M+ thin-file adults across Panthera's four target markets
How Panthera Works

From raw transaction data to a scored decision in seconds.

Panthera's pipeline ingests alternative data streams, extracts 200+ behavioral features, and returns an interpretable score with reason codes.

01

Ingest alternative data

Panthera connects to mobile wallet transaction logs, e-commerce purchase history, utility billing records, and payroll transfer data through a single API or batch file ingestion. No bureau pull required.

02

Extract behavioral features

Our per-market models extract 200+ features spanning cash-flow velocity, repayment regularity, income seasonality, and obligation clearance patterns. Each feature set is tuned to local data availability and regulatory constraints.

03

Score and explain

The API returns a 0-1000 Panthera Score alongside up to five human-readable reason codes tied directly to the model features that drove the decision, not post-hoc rationalizations.

Results

Numbers from production pilots.

Lenders integrating Panthera consistently approve more borrowers without lifting default rates. These figures come from live pilot deployments.

+38% Approval lift Average across pilot deployments, same default threshold
200+ Behavioral features Per-market feature families extracted per applicant
<800ms API latency P99 score response time including feature extraction

"Our approval rate on thin-file applicants increased 35 percent without any increase in 90-day delinquency. Panthera's reason codes also made it straightforward to explain rejections under OJK guidelines."

Chief Risk Officer, OJK-licensed digital lender, Indonesia

"We had essentially no scoring capability for OFW remittance-receiving households. Panthera's utility and wallet features gave us a workable signal where the bureau had nothing."

Head of Credit, Consumer Finance Company, Philippines
Markets

Four markets. One integration.

Panthera's models are built and maintained per country to match local data availability, regulatory requirements, and borrower behavior.

Vietnam MoMo and ZaloPay wallet data, VCB utility billing, active deployment
Indonesia GoPay, OVO, DANA transaction history, OJK compliance layer
Philippines GCash and Maya wallet history, BSP data-privacy framework
Japan PayPay transaction data, sole-proprietor tax records, FISC-aligned
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Ready to score the borrowers your model leaves behind?

Talk to our team about pilot pricing, data integration requirements, and what approval lift to expect in your market.