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What are Regional Lending Risks?
Many defaults are caused by adverse movements in local market conditions and to date, even the most astute underwriting of the borrower and...
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How Lenders use Forescore™ to Increase Profitability
A nationwide mortgage lender with a large presence in the securitization of loans pondered whether their loan underwriting could be improved so... 
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UFA can help you increase revenues, reduce costs and control risks with our:

  • Statistical and econometric modeling;
  • Practical application of the latest financial theories;
  • Extensive regional economic data and analysis; and
  • Software development and integration.

Our expertise benefits lenders through better:

  • Corporate and portfolio risk management
  • Product pricing
  • Product structuring
  • Acquisitions and dispositions
  • Loan marketing
  • Loan underwriting
  • Loan valuation

The following UFA projects illustrate applications of UFA’s analysis:

  • Anticipating and hedging economic risks
  • Developing and maintaining reliable forecasts and pool curves loss frequency, loss severity, prepayment / retention
  • Structuring asset-backed securities
  • Valuing loan servicing rights and I/O strips
  • Calculating expected gains on portfolio sales
  • Forecasting collateral values and exposures
  • Forecasting credit losses for loan loss reserves
  • Monitoring operating unit performance against profitability benchmarks
  • Compensating loan originators, unit managers and line of business managers
  • Identifying most (and least) profitable customer, geographic and collateral segments
  • Segmenting and pricing portfolio acquisitions
  • Valuing loan guarantees and insurance
  • Defining value-based product designs and underwriting rules
  • Risk pricing individual loans and evaluating product mix tradeoffs rates and fees, term, credit tier, LTV / advance rates
  • Setting proactive servicing and refinancing strategies
  • Identifying borrowers with a high propensity to prepay or default
  • Defining values for borrower relationships

 

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