AI Agent Profile · LendingIQ · Bengaluru
Portfolio Risk Head AI
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What this agent does
The Portfolio Risk Head AI reads the live portfolio, interprets what the numbers mean, and surfaces what the credit team needs to act on — before it becomes a problem. It produces portfolio health reads, builds vintage curves, maps concentration risk, and runs the early warning engine that decides which accounts need attention this week. It does not contact borrowers, initiate collections, or restructure loans. It identifies and narrates; humans act.
Primary functions
Portfolio Health Read
Triggered on schedule or on-demandInvoked when: monthly MIS available, board pack due, or ad-hoc senior query
- Reads the full portfolio snapshot — outstanding book, product mix, DPD bucket distribution, NPA stock and flow, write-offs, and collection efficiency — passed as structured data at invocation time.
- Compares the current snapshot against the prior period (if provided) and narrates the direction of travel: what improved, what deteriorated, and what is showing an early trend worth watching.
- Does not maintain its own database or remember the last snapshot autonomously. Prior period data must be injected alongside current data for comparison to work. If only one period is provided, it reads that period in isolation without inferring trends.
- Frames the health read at the level requested — board-level summary (3–4 headline observations), management MIS (segment-wise deep dive), or specific product/geography slice.
Vintage Analysis
Triggered monthly or at product reviewInvoked when: new cohort data available, product under review, or policy change impact assessment needed
- Reads disbursement cohort data — loans grouped by month of origination — and tracks how each cohort's NPA or DPD rate has evolved over its seasoning period, month by month.
- Identifies whether newer vintages are performing better or worse than older vintages at the same point in their lifecycle. A newer vintage that is running hotter at 6 months than older vintages ran at 6 months is a leading indicator of policy or market deterioration.
- Links vintage performance to the policy version, credit officer, product variant, or channel in effect at origination — so when a bad vintage is found, it can be traced back to what changed at the time it was booked.
- Cannot compute the vintage curves from raw transaction data. It needs the cohort NPA-by-month matrix already aggregated. It interprets the curves; it does not build them from ledger transactions.
Concentration Risk Mapping
Triggered monthly or at limit reviewInvoked when: monthly MIS available, new large disbursement, or sector/geography limit review due
- Maps the portfolio across every concentration dimension in the data provided: sector, geography (state / district), borrower size, product type, ticket size band, channel of origination, single-borrower group exposure.
- Measures each dimension against the concentration limits in the current credit policy (retrieved via RAG) and flags where the portfolio is approaching, at, or beyond a limit — with the actual figure, the limit, and the headroom remaining.
- Identifies hidden concentrations that a single-dimension view misses — e.g., a portfolio that looks diversified by sector but is heavily concentrated in one district within a sector, with correlated flood or drought risk.
- Does not decide what concentration limits should be — that is the Head of Credit Policy AI's role. It reports against the limits that currently exist and flags where they may be insufficient given the concentrations it can see.
Early Warning Strategy & Account Flagging
Triggered on CBS refresh or bureau updateInvoked when: weekly CBS pull, monthly bureau refresh, or GST compliance update received
- Runs a configured set of early warning triggers across the active book — DPD creep (account moving from 0 DPD to 1–29 DPD), bureau score drop above threshold, GST filing lapse, ECS bounce frequency increase, overdraft utilisation crossing 85%, and collections field visit outcome flagged negative.
- For each triggered account, reads the account history and available signals and produces an account-level deterioration narrative: what signals fired, when they started, what the account looked like at origination versus now, and what combination of signals suggests a genuine risk versus a one-off blip.
- Scores the urgency of each flagged account — not as a calibrated probability, but as a triage priority (Immediate action / Monitor closely / Watch list) — so the collections and credit team knows which 20 accounts to call this week versus which 80 to revisit next month.
- Recommends an action category for each account — borrower call, field visit, restructure discussion, additional collateral request, or refer to collections — but does not initiate any of these actions itself.
Knowledge base
Live Portfolio MIS & CBS Data
The primary input — injected at invocation. Repayment status, DPD buckets, disbursements, NPA stock and flow. Not stored between sessions.
Vintage Cohort Matrix
Pre-aggregated cohort NPA-by-month data passed in context. The agent interprets the curves; it does not compute them from raw transactions.
Concentration Limits (RAG)
Current credit policy concentration limits retrieved at invocation. The agent reports portfolio position against these limits — always the live version, never cached.
Early Warning Rule Set
Configured trigger thresholds — DPD creep, score drop, GST lapse, ECS bounce rate, OD utilisation — maintained by the credit team and loaded at runtime.
Bureau Score Refresh Feed
Monthly updated bureau scores for active borrowers. Used to detect score deterioration since origination as an early warning signal.
Collections CRM Notes
Field visit outcomes, promise-to-pay records, and borrower contact history — used to contextualise whether a DPD signal is a payment delay or a genuine risk event.
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Known limitations
Important Reads
Learn more about how to deploy Portfolio Risk Head AI to your lending workflow.
- Use case #0001How Portfolio AI Detects Concentration Risk Before It Becomes NPAConcentration risk does not announce itself. It accumulates quietly — one loan at a time, one sector at a time — until the day a systemic event hits and the lender discovers that 34% of its book is exposed to the same stress. By then, it is not a risk management problem. It is an NPA crisis. The Portfolio Monitor AI watches every dimension of concentration in real time, flags breaches the moment they form, and gives management time to act.Read article →
- Use case #0002Vintage Analysis Automated: What Portfolio Monitor AI Tracks MonthlyVintage analysis is the single most powerful diagnostic tool in consumer and SME lending — and the most consistently under-resourced. Most lenders do it annually, if at all, with a team of analysts spending two weeks in Excel. The Portfolio Monitor AI runs full vintage analytics monthly, automatically, for every cohort across every product segment, and delivers insights that would take a human team a quarter to produce.Read article →
- Use case #0003Early Warning Systems: How AI Spots Stressed Borrowers 90 Days EarlyBy the time a borrower misses their first EMI, the stress that caused it has been building for 60 to 90 days. The signals were there — in their banking behaviour, their bureau activity, their GST filings, their mobile payment patterns. Most lenders never see them because they only look when the bounce happens. The Portfolio Monitor AI looks continuously, and it looks everywhere.Read article →
