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    A Predictive Model for Bounced Check Risk Using Machine Learning
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025) Kaya K.; Sayar A.; Memis E.C.; Ozlem S.; Ertugrul S.; Cakar T.
    Bounced checks result in direct monetary losses. Traditional rule-based systems cannot adapt to new patterns and lack flexibility. In this study, we used a large and imbalanced check dataset with customer profiles, credit limits, and historical check outcomes. We applied feature engineering emphasizing time-based transaction patterns, extensive clustering, anomaly detection, and inflation adjustment. We trained six models each for two datasets, which are undersampled to handle class imbalance: Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Extra Trees, and CatBoost. The best performing model, CatBoost, achieved macro F1 scores of 88.5 percent on individual checks dataset with a gross sunk rate of 4.92 percent, and 91.7 percent on corporate checks dataset with a gross sunk rate of 4.28 percent. These results show the model can identify checks most likely to bounce before granting and maintain a low gross sunk rate overall. This study presents a data-driven machine learning solution that enables financial companies to predict and prevent bounced checks before they occur. © 2025 IEEE.