Riccardo de Santis is a Data Scientist in Rabobank, where he is part of the Financial Economic Crime Customer Due Diligence Model Development & Monitoring team. He holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from the University of Bologna. Before joining his current position, he worked in the Credit Risk domain, gaining an in depth knowledge into statistics and modelling.
A key requirement for calibrating a supervised machine learning model is the accurate identification of the target variable. For a Customer Due Diligence (CDD) model, the goal is to predict the risk rating (Low, Medium, or High) of a client file, which correlates with the perceived risk of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (AML risk). […]