For Risk Values, the design brief was:

> to identify a high proportion of account holders or applicants for business or employment who exhibit the characteristics which indicate that they would be willing to abuse the relationship with the financial institution;

> to do this without reference to:

- name
- colour
- race
- religion
- place of origin
- place of residence
- transaction history

using easy-to-collect data;

> to process that data quickly and easily;

> to provide the processing facility for the institution, without recourse to outside processing;

> to produce a Risk Value in a simple-to-understand format;

at a price that could be afforded by financial services businesses in developing countries;

> to work "out of the box" and produce results immediately

with no or minimal user training

> to take into consideration data protection disclosure risks