Purpose Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are fundamental to the
socioeconomic development of a country or region. They directly contribute to increasing …

Financial assessment has been of great interest to both academic and practitioners in the
past decades. Among several performance assessment approaches, Data Envelopment …

Abstract Purpose Nowadays, Supply Chain Finance (SCF) has been develo** rapidly
since the emergence of credit risk. Therefore, this paper used SVM optimized by the firefly …

Purpose This study aimed to improve the financing credit evaluation for small and medium-
sized real estate enterprises (SMREEs). A financing credit evaluation model was proposed …

As the engine of China's economy, small enterprises have been the central to the country's
economic development. However, given the characteristics of the small enterprises loan (ie …

The economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the banks in their
disbursement of mortgages which caused the spread of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) with …

Technological innovation as one of the most important competitive strategies for companies
has attracted the attentions of companies and governments. In this paper, we present an …

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) provides effective methods for dealing with the
challenge of sorting credit ratings. This paper presents a novel data-driven MCDM sorting …

This paper is about predicting the outcome of tennis matches of the Association of Tennis
Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) using both data and …

Financial inclusion aims to provide financial services at an affordable cost to low-income
groups in need. However, the lack of effective credit evaluation information for such groups …