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Data Cleanroom · Use case

Alternative Credit Scoring

Millions of people have no credit history but years of mobile history. The Data Cleanroom lets lenders turn that telco behaviour into a credit signal — with the customer’s consent, without the telco sharing subscriber data, and without the lender ever holding it.

Thin-File CustomersFinancial InclusionConsent-BasedMulti-Party Computation

The Problem

No credit history doesn’t mean no history

First-time borrowers, young people, gig and informal workers, and customers outside big cities often have little or no bureau record. Lenders can’t assess them, so they’re declined or priced as high risk — even when they would repay reliably.

Many of these same people have held the same mobile number for years, top up or pay their bill on a regular rhythm, and use their phone in stable, predictable ways. That behaviour says a lot about stability and ability to pay.

But a telco can’t simply hand subscriber data to a lender, and a lender shouldn’t collect raw telco records just to make a decision. The signal exists — it has just been locked away.

The Signals

Telco signals that predict stability

None of these are shared as raw data. They’re computed inside the cleanroom and combined into a score.

Number tenure

How long the customer has held the same number — long tenure signals stability.

Payment regularity

Whether bills are paid on time, or prepaid top-ups happen on a steady rhythm.

Spend consistency

How stable top-up or bill amounts are over time — a proxy for steady income.

Usage stability

Consistent calling and data use rather than sudden, erratic changes.

Location stability

A consistent home and work area over time — measured as a pattern, never as tracking.

Device stability

How often the customer changes handsets or SIMs.

How It Works

How the Data Cleanroom makes it work

1

Customer consents

The applicant agrees, in the lender’s app or branch, to a telco-based assessment.

2

Lender sends an encrypted query

The lender submits the applicant’s encrypted identifier to the cleanroom — no raw personal data changes hands.

3

Score computed privately

The telco’s behavioural features and the agreed scoring model are combined using multi-party computation on encrypted inputs.

4

Only the score comes back

The lender receives a score or risk band with reason codes, and uses it alongside its own policy and any bureau data.

The Outcome

What this changes

Approve creditworthy customers who have no bureau history
Price risk more accurately for thin-file and underbanked segments
Keep every assessment consent-based and privacy-safe
Explain decisions with reason codes, not a black box
Give telcos a way to support financial inclusion without selling data

Who It's For

Who it’s for

Banks & NBFCs

Extend credit to new-to-credit customers with a signal beyond the bureau.

Fintech & microfinance lenders

Underwrite small-ticket and first-time loans faster, with less guesswork.

Telecom operators

Turn network behaviour into a credit signal while subscriber data stays in-house.

Privacy

Private by design

Consent first

Assessments run only with the applicant’s explicit agreement.

Data stays at its source

Telco records never leave the telco; the lender never holds them.

Encrypted end to end

Identifiers and features stay encrypted throughout the computation.

Only a score is released

The output is limited to the score and reason codes — never the underlying behaviour.