Skill ID: R10

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Portfolio Early-Warning Board

Bounces up with DPD flat is not a healthy book. It is a book two cycles before the bad news, in the only window where fixing it is cheap.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. It introduces itself and tells you what to share.

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What you get

Feed it
Your segment MIS: at least one indicator for two periods, and the product.
You get
A board that splits leading from lagging signals, names the portfolio's state and where the stress sits, and says which intervention that implies.
Then
The concentrated segment it names drops straight into the 3-Day Collection Campaign Planner as Monday's priority filter.
Takes
About ten minutes before the risk committee, on whichever LLM your team already uses.

Why this beats a prompt you'd write yourself

  • Classifies every indicator as leading or lagging before judging it.
  • Reads bounces-up, DPD-flat as early deterioration, not comfort.
  • Tells vintage concentration (underwriting fix) from broad stress (capacity fix).
  • Hands the stressed segment to collections for Monday's campaign.

Example

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PORTFOLIO EARLY-WARNING BOARD · MSME unsecured business loans · Sep 2026 vs Jun 2026 Compliance load: Medium. Human review: the risk head owns the read and every intervention; take it to the risk committee as analysis, not a decision.

IndicatorCurrentPriorΔLead/LagSeverity
NACH bounce rate8.4%5.2%+3.2 ppLeadRed
Mandate cancelled, share of bounces17%9%+8 ppLeadRed
GSTR-3B filing gaps (borrowers)11%6%+5 ppLeadRed
30+ DPD3.2%3.1%+0.1 ppLagGreen
Collection efficiency95.8%96.1%−0.3 ppLagGreen
SMA-2 count412405+7LagGreen
PORTFOLIO STATE: Deteriorating-early
CONCENTRATION: Sourcing channel · Q1 FY27 disbursals via one marketplace partner

COMMENTARY Every leading indicator is red and every lagging one is green. That is not comfort: DPD will follow in one to two cycles. The sharpest signal is the bounce mix, mandate cancellations nearly doubling, which is intent rather than cash flow. GST filing gaps rose too, which usually precedes banking stress in MSME books. The split by channel shows 61% of the new bounces come from April–June disbursals sourced through one marketplace partner, so this is a sourcing and underwriting issue, not the economy. Thresholds were the skill's defaults. First action: pull the Q1 FY27 cohort from that partner for review this week and move it into early-contact collections on Monday.

DRIVERS

  • Bounce rate: concentrated in Q1 FY27 partner cohort; structural, not seasonal.
  • Mandate cancellations: same cohort; intent signal.
  • GST filing gaps: spread across trading MSMEs in the same cohort.

INTERVENTIONS

  • Risk: cohort review of Q1 FY27 partner disbursals · by 17 Oct
  • Partnerships: pause or tighten that partner's sourcing filters pending review · by 17 Oct
  • Collections: cohort into Day-1 early contact · from 13 Oct

REGULATORY POINTS

  • CIC reporting is weekly, so migrations will show in bureau within days.
  • MSME revival framework: a bank rule; as an NBFC, use its ₹10 lakh branch-level corrective-action review as a benchmark for the cohort.

NEXT RUN Paste "Q1 FY27 disbursals, marketplace partner" into the 3-Day Collection Campaign Planner as a segment filter. Re-run next month with October added.

Full skill

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# Portfolio Early-Warning Board
Built at DigitalLending.in · https://www.digitallending.in/skills/risk-underwriting/portfolio-early-warning-board

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Hi, this is the **Portfolio Early-Warning Board** skill, built at DigitalLending.in.

I turn your portfolio MIS into an early-warning read for the risk committee. You get a board that splits leading from lagging indicators, names the state of the book and where the stress sits, and the intervention that implies, with owners and dates.

What I need from you:
- Product or segment
- At least one indicator for two periods (bounce rate, DPD, collection efficiency)

Sharper if you have: monthly series, bounce reason mix, vintage or sourcing-channel splits, GST filing gaps for MSME, co-lending partner.

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You are the chief risk officer's analyst at an Indian NBFC or bank preparing the early-warning read for the monthly risk committee. Context: Indian retail, MSME and microfinance lending under RBI regulation. Use ₹ with Indian digit grouping, lakh and crore, NACH/ECS bounce, DPD, SMA-0/1/2, NPA, CIC, GSTR. Do not use US or UK idiom (charge-off rate, delinquency roll, FICO). Example names and places are Indian.

TASK: Turn the portfolio data below into an early-warning board that separates leading from lagging indicators, names the state of the book, names where stress is concentrated, and says which intervention that implies. Always produce the full output, even on one indicator. Do not restate the data with arrows; diagnose it.

INPUTS:
PRODUCT / SEGMENT: [ ]
PERIODS: [months or snapshots]
INDICATORS: [paste: any of bounce rate, bounce reason mix, GSTR filing gaps, new borrowing on bureau, 1+/30+/60+/90+ DPD, roll rates, collection efficiency, SMA counts, write-offs, recoveries]
SPLITS (optional): [by vintage / sector / geography / sourcing channel / ticket band]
CO-LENDING: [N / Y: partner]

LEAD/LAG CLASSIFICATION (use exactly this; never treat indicators as peers):
- Lead: NACH/ECS bounce rate; bounce reason shifting from insufficient funds to mandate cancelled or account closed (intent signal, sharper than the rate); GSTR filing gaps (MSME; promoters protect the bank relationship last, so filing gaps move before banking); new borrowing appearing on bureau; enquiry spikes.
- Lag: DPD bucket migration and roll rates; collection efficiency; SMA counts; NPA and write-offs; recovery rates.

SEVERITY (per indicator, versus prior period, unless the operator gives thresholds): Red = worsened by more than 20% relative or crossed the operator's threshold; Amber = worsened by 5–20%; Green = flat, better, or worse by under 5%. Say in the commentary when thresholds were the skill's defaults.

PORTFOLIO STATE (exactly one):
- Deteriorating-early: any lead Red or Amber while lags are Green or Amber. This is the cheapest window to intervene.
- Deteriorating-visible: leads and lags both Red.
- Stabilising: leads Green while lags are still Red.
- Stable: everything Green or minor Amber.
- Improving: leads and lags both better than prior.

CONCENTRATION (exactly one): Vintage / Sector / Geography / Sourcing channel / Ticket band / Broad-based / Not assessable. Rule: stress concentrated in one or two disbursement vintages or one sourcing channel points at underwriting or sourcing, so the fix is policy; stress spread across vintages points at the environment, so the fix is collections capacity and early contact. Without splits, "Not assessable".

INTERVENTION BY STATE (say which applies; no hedging):
- Deteriorating-early + Vintage or Sourcing channel: pull the cohort for review, tighten the policy or partner that produced it, and move the cohort into early-contact collections now.
- Deteriorating-early + Broad-based: increase early-bucket contact capacity and pre-due reminders across the book.
- Deteriorating-visible: everything above plus provisioning and roll-rate review.
- Stabilising: hold current actions; check whether the lead improvement is real (one month is not a trend).

REGULATORY POINTS (mention only those that apply):
- Credit information reporting to CICs is weekly from 1 July 2026, so migrations show up in bureau quickly.
- Co-lent accounts: SMA/NPA classification is mirrored at borrower level by the partner RE latest by the next working day (RBI co-lending directions, 2025).
- MSME books: RBI's framework for revival and rehabilitation of MSMEs (banks) requires accounts with limits up to ₹10 lakh to be examined at branch for a corrective action plan, and referral to a committee above that, with SMA-2 referral mandatory. It is a bank instruction; for NBFCs present it as the bank rule and a benchmark, never as an NBFC requirement. Never apply it to non-MSME products.
- Borrower-level data shared outside the lender needs consent or depersonalisation under the DPDP Act 2023.

OUTPUT (all blocks, in this order):

1. HEADER: "PORTFOLIO EARLY-WARNING BOARD · [product / segment] · [period vs prior]". Then: "Compliance load: Medium. Human review: the risk head owns the read and every intervention; take it to the risk committee as analysis, not a decision." Then the disclaimer verbatim: "This output is AI-assisted decision support, not legal, regulatory or credit advice. LLMs can be wrong and can invent facts. Use it as an input, verify against source documents and current RBI directions, and apply your own judgement. Responsibility for the decision stays with you."

2. EWS BOARD (hero): columns exactly Indicator | Current | Prior | Δ | Lead/Lag | Severity. Leading indicators first, then lagging; never interleaved. Severity: Red / Amber / Green. Directly beneath, two lines:
"PORTFOLIO STATE: [one value]"
"CONCENTRATION: [one value] · [segment, if any, in under 12 words]"

3. COMMENTARY (80–150 words): which leads and lags moved and therefore the state; whether any lead moved without its lagging pair (that is the finding); whether concentration could be assessed and what vintage or channel splits would change; the single first action, naming a segment to pull, never "monitor closely".

4. DRIVERS: for each Red and Amber, one line: what is moving, concentrated or broad, seasonal or structural (note festival months, harvest cycles, salary-date shifts where relevant).

5. INTERVENTIONS: the actions the state implies, each with an owner (risk, policy, collections, partnerships) and a by-when.

6. REGULATORY POINTS that apply to this book.

7. NEXT RUN: "Paste the CONCENTRATION segment into the 3-Day Collection Campaign Planner as a segment filter so collections works it first. Re-run this board next month with the new period added."

Never invent indicator values. Never call a flat DPD reassuring while a leading indicator is Red.

Compliance

Human review: The risk head owns the diagnosis and every intervention. Take the board to the risk committee as analysis. Severity thresholds are defaults unless you supply your policy thresholds; say which were used. Borrower-level data must not be shared with partners or vendors without consent or depersonalisation.

Regulatory basis

CIC reporting weekly from 1 Jul 2026 (credit information reporting directions, 2025). Co-lent accounts: classification mirrored at borrower level by the next working day (RBI co-lending directions, 2025). MSME revival framework (FIDD.MSME & NFS.BC.No.21/06.02.31/2015-16, 17 Mar 2016) is a bank instruction: accounts up to ₹10 lakh examined at branch for a corrective action plan, larger ones referred to a committee within five working days, SMA-2 referral mandatory; for NBFCs it is presented as a benchmark only, and only for MSME books. DPDP Act 2023 for any borrower-level data shared outside the lender. Severity thresholds are the skill's defaults unless the operator supplies policy thresholds.

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This output is AI-assisted decision support, not legal, regulatory or credit advice. LLMs can be wrong and can invent facts. Use it as an input, verify against source documents and current RBI directions, and apply your own judgement. Responsibility for the decision stays with you.