摘要:The article presents a model for achieving the allocative efficiency of credit resources in Ukraine’s banking system. The research involves establishing a set of criteria for assessing a borrower’s creditworthiness and analyzing them by means of the discriminant analysis,Helwig’s methods,cluster analysis,the dendrite method,and principal component analysis;the methods are,then,contrasted. This is followed by designing an optimal credit portfolio of the banking system and comparing it with actual credit portfolios with the help of similarity metrics.