Patent attributes
A method for generating a credit risk score of a business entity. The method includes identifying a business management application (BMA) used by the business entity and a plurality of trading partners of the business entity, selecting, from the plurality of trading partners, a plurality of selected trading partners based on a pre-determined business activity measure of each of the plurality of trading partners, obtaining, from the BMA, a plurality of invoice payment records of the business entity paying the plurality of selected trading partners, analyzing, by a computer processor, the plurality of invoice payment records to generate a plurality of invoice payment statistics representing payment behavior of the business entity, and generating, by the computer processor and using a pre-determined formula, the credit risk score based on the plurality of invoice payment statistics.
