Cash Advance Index update improves its predictive power

Plaid has released an updated Cash Advance Index, a risk model for cash advance and earned wage access providers, incorporating its Sequential Foundation Model to analyze the sequence and timing of financial events and predict repayment likelihood. In testing, the new version reduced dollar losses by up to 10% at fixed approval rates compared with the prior model. The update also introduces a dashboard that provides real-time portfolio metrics, repayment outcomes, score-bucket distributions, and user-level views of score changes, cash flow attributes, and advance history to support risk investigations and repayment prioritization. An optional income-insights feature supplies predicted payment dates, expected income amounts, and leading income streams to help providers set repayment dates more appropriately, particularly for users with variable or gig-based income. Plaid says the model combines network data with actual cash advance repayment outcomes and will continue to evolve as repayment risk patterns change.

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