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The impact of in-person learning with Naeem Siddiqi

Learn directly from a global expert through live, classroom-based sessions

About the program

This business-focused class by Naeem Siddiqi provides end-to-end methodology training for risk scorecard development for retail and SME portfolios, covering scorecard implementation, risk strategy development, and portfolio management reporting. The course emphasizes practical tips, global best practices, and real-world insights that help analysts build stronger models. The methodology is adaptable for both traditional scorecards and machine learning models, without requiring deep statistical knowledge.

2025 APAC program summary

The 2025 APAC cohort saw participation from professionals across Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Participants appreciated Naeem’s deep expertise, real-world insights, clarity in teaching, and practical frameworks that they could apply immediately in model development, validation, and risk strategy.

Interest for 2026

We are planning the 2026 APAC edition of this live, instructor-led, in-person class starting in March.

If you would like to be notified once the schedule is announced, please fill out the form on this page. You will receive early updates, venue details, and exclusive access to early-bird registration.

Who should attend

Credit risk managers
Credit scoring specialists
Data miners and analysts
Model validation and audit professionals
Risk strategy developers
Credit risk executives

What you will learn

Uses of credit risk scorecards
Planning scorecard development projects
Developing grouped-variable, points-based scorecards
Identifying and fixing data issues
Creating intelligent derived variables (telco, online, transactional)
Scorecard validation, cutoffs, and strategy development
Scorecard reporting and maintenance

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Senior Risk Advisor and author of “Intelligent Credit Scoring"

Naeem Siddiqi serves as a Senior Risk Advisor at SAS and is the author of “Intelligent Credit Scoring”, (Wiley and Sons, New York, 2005), Intelligent Credit Scoring: Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards (Wiley and Sons, 2017), and various papers on credit risk topics. Naeem meets with senior executives and decision makers from between 40-50 lenders globally each year, and provides strategic advice to them on areas such as the development and validation of credit scoring models, climate change risk, infrastructure planning for analytics, and retail credit risk strategy. He has also trained hundreds of bankers in over 25 countries on the art and science of credit scorecard development, and helps credit risk analysts develop better scorecards.

Naeem Siddiqi
Senior Risk Advisor and author of “Intelligent Credit Scoring”