“…As a result of requiring higher credit underwriting standards, banks have improved their credit-scoring systems with the aim of "better quantifying the financial risks they face and assigning the necessary economic capital" (Lopez and Saidenberg, 2000, p. 152) (for further discussion, see also Pau and Tambo, 1990;Altman and Saunders, 1998;Scarpel and Milioni, 2002;Costa and Baidya, 2003;Jacobson and Roszbach, 2003;Yurdakul and İç, 2004;Chambers et al, 2009;Xu and Zhang, 2009;Yu et al, 2009;Twala, 2010;Wang et al, 2011;Blackburn and Vermilyea, 2012;Leow and Mues, 2012). However, the progress achieved over the past decades does not mean that the current approaches, methods and/or techniques are without drawbacks (cf.…”