FinTech ML Labs

FinTech ML Labs is a hands-on Python project series designed to help you learn and build real-world machine learning solutions used in financial systems. This includes credit scoring, fraud detection, risk forecasting, and more.

Each project is practical, beginner-friendly, and includes all necessary code, datasets, and documentation.

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🧠 What You Will Learn

• How ML is used in credit scoring, fraud detection, and trading
• How to work with public financial datasets
• How to build, evaluate, and deploy ML models
• How companies like Stripe, PayPal, and Klarna apply ML in production

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📁 Project Structure

.github/workflows    # GitHub Actions for CI/CD
api/                 # Backend API components
dashboard/           # Dashboard-related files and slides
notebooks/           # Jupyter notebooks and datasets
scripts/             # Utility or helper scripts
tests/               # Unit and integration test files
.gitignore           # Git ignored files config
README.md            # Project overview and setup guide
requirements.txt     # Required Python packages

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/epythonlab2/fintech-ml-labs.git
cd fintech-ml-labs

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

python -m venv venv
# macOS/Linux
source venv/bin/activate
# Windows
.�env\Scripts�ctivate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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🚀 Usage

Run the Jupyter notebook

Navigate to the notebooks/ directory and launch Jupyter:

jupyter notebook

Open credit_scoring_model.ipynb to explore the machine learning pipeline.

API & Dashboard (Optional)

Instructions for setting up the API or dashboard will be provided in later episodes.

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🎬 Video Series

📺 Watch the full tutorial series on YouTube:
Build FinTech ML Projects with Python (Intro Episode)

Build FinTech ML Projects with Python (Credit Scoring Model)

Each video includes:

• Python walkthrough
• Code explanation
• Dataset links
• GitHub repository access

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.

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Created by Asibeh – AI developer and educator focused on ML in finance.