Tag: Social Credit
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Social Credit Rating
Oliver Everling (editor): Social Credit Rating, Wiesbaden 2020, Springer Gabler Verlag, eBook ISBN 978-3-658-29653-7, Softcover ISBN 978-3-658-29652-0. Social credit ratings are the result of social credit systems. These include online rating or scoring systems which are making use of a variety of databases, using, for example, the creditworthiness, criminal record and social behavior of individuals…
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Toward A Reputation State: A Comprehensive View of China’s Social Credit System Project
China’s Social Credit System Project (the “SCSP”) is one of the most misunderstood recent developments in China’s law and policy. In the book “Social Credit Rating“, Xin Dai offers a comprehensive conceptual thesis that explains the SCSP as the Chinese government’s multi-faceted strategy to use reputation in law and governance. The SCSP envisions that reputation…
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Reflections on China’s Credit Reporting Practice
Prof. Wu Jingmei discusses in her contribution to the book “Social Credit Rating” the current situation, logic and development trends of China’s credit reporting system. China’s credit reporting system is composed of financial, commercial and administrative credit reporting, which were set up according to its resource allocation system divided into financial sector, non-financial sector, and…
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A Study on the Typological Regulation of the Dishonesty Punishment – also on the Rule Design of the Social Credit Law
The punishment of dishonesty is an important content of the credit rule of law, writes Wang Wei in the book “Social Credit Rating“. “The punishment of dishonesty is not a precise legal concept,” he says, “so we must use legal technology to analyze and define it.” In the market punishment, industrial punishment, social punishment, administrative…
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Risk Culture as a Means of Mitigating Conduct Risk
Thomas Kaiser and Tatjana Schulz write in their contribution to the book “Social Credit Rating” about the similarities with and differences to the China Social Credit System: Banks around the world have been exposed to numerous cases of misconduct at individual as well as on a systemic level, inflicting harm on single customers and the…
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Determinants of Consumer Credit Default in Romania: A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms
Prof. Dr. Monica Dudian and Ana-Maria Sandica investigate the separation power of several machine learning techniques and compared them with the benchmark logistic regression using real data from 17520 private individuals of a Romanian commercial bank. The result of their research can be read in the book “Social Credit Rating“. In order to capture the…
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The Social Credit System and China’s Rule of Law
In 2014, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) central government formally declared the construction of a Social Credit System (SCS) a national task. Meanwhile, government-designated localities and companies are experimenting with scoring systems for businesses, citizens and the administration. “The government’s initiative introduces mechanisms for a massive aggregation and exchange of data about ‘credit subjects’,…
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Consumer Reporting Agency Against Bonus Hoppers
“If you want to purchase electricity and gas cheaply, you have to compare prices and, if necessary, change providers. Energy suppliers obviously want to change that with Schufa and a credit agency.” An article about energy suppliers on tagesschau.de introduces the topic: “Electricity and gas customers who want to change their provider more often could…
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An Economic Approach to China’s Social Credit System
In an effort to increase trustworthiness across society, the Chinese government has been building its Social Credit System since 2014. This system targets all natural and legal persons in China and consists of four major elements: a central data platform, a rating system for commercial creditworthiness, a propaganda system for educative purposes and a publicly…
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Trust In a Time of Uncertainty
The corona pandemic is far from over. This is especially true if you do not look at it from a purely medical point of view, but also from the perspective of the social and economic consequences. The virus divides the opinions of experts: on the one hand those who warn of the dangers of the…
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How the Authority Determines Whether a Board Member Has Sufficient Time
Within the scope of the Banking Act, the notification of intent to appoint a management board member must include the material facts for an assessment of whether sufficient time is available for the performance of the related duties. Board members are required to provide detailed information on how they spend their time. It is at…
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Management Board Members Must Submit a Certificate of Good Conduct for Official Purposes
Depending on their nationality and place of residence, management board members must submit the original copy of a “certificate of good conduct for presentation to a German authority (certificate of good conduct for official purposes)” (document type “O”) issued by the Federal Office of Justice (Bundesamt für Justiz – BfJ). This document is issued in…
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Data for Bank Management Board Member’s Reputation Rating
The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) provides some insights into what kind of data is used to establish a bank management board member’s reputation rating in its Guidance Notice on management board members. This is pursuant to the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), the German Payment Services Supervision Act…
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Professional and Personal Requirements for Persons Appointed as Management Board Members
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) provided a Guidance Notice on management board members pursuant to the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz – KWG), the German Payment Services Supervision Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz – ZAG) and the German Capital Investment Code (Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch – KAGB). The following introduces the approach how to check…
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The Road Ahead For Social Credit Rating
In the book “Social Credit Rating” you can read a lot about the nature and content of the social credit system, learn about governance, law and sustainability, as well as methods, models and functions. But what does that mean – for citizens as well as for companies? How can, how will Social Credit Rating change…
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China’s Social Credit System
The Social Credit System (SCS) is perhaps the most prominent manifestation of the Chinese government’s intention to reinforce legal, regulatory and policy processes through the application of information technology, writes Rogier Creemers, Van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden University. Yet its organizational specifics have not yet received academic scrutiny. He published a paper which identifies the…
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