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Based on the various indexes of personal credit risk evaluation of domestic and foreign commercial banks, and according to the characteristics of P2P online lending, this paper analyzes the factors that affect the credit risk of P2P online borrowers, introduces the unique risk factors in the field of Internet information, and constructs an index system of personal credit risk evaluation of P2P online lending, which combines qualitative and quantitative indexes, including six major indexes and 21 small indexes. It then quantifies each index and defines the judgment standard of the evaluation results. Using analytic hierarchy process (AHP), expert scoring method, and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, this paper establishes a personal credit risk evaluation model of P2P online lending based on AHP method. The public information of two borrowers on the \u201cPaiPai Lending\u201d platform are selected for experimental verification. The results show that the improved personal credit risk evaluation model has better applicability and can evaluate the borrower\u2019s credit status more scientifically, accurately, and comprehensively; thus, it is an effective method of personal credit risk evaluation of P2P online lending.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13010083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,5]],"date-time":"2021-01-05T21:18:57Z","timestamp":1609881537000},"page":"83","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Personal Credit Risk Evaluation Model of P2P Online Lending Based on AHP"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Fengpei","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Management of Technology, Pukyong National University, 45, Yongso-ro, Nam-Gu, Busan 48513, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiang","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8098-7842","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Young Seok","family":"Ock","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Management of Technology, Pukyong National University, 45, Yongso-ro, Nam-Gu, Busan 48513, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhiying","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"71","DOI":"10.1016\/S0747-5632(02)00014-6","article-title":"Loneliness and Internet use","volume":"19","year":"2003","journal-title":"Comput. 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