Surviving the Credit Crunch: Tactics and Strategies for Loss Mitigation

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Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Lowell Alcorn, as he explores the strategies needed to understand loss mitigation. In recent weeks we’ve seen all the turbulence within some huge financial services organizations, and many are wondering what lessons can be learned from this crisis. When speaking with Lowell Alcorn, he explained that the two most important take-aways from the crisis are the need to improve risk management and managing data through aggressive loss mitigation. Key executives need to understand their risks and be able to report those risks. Many organizations also need to tighten up their aggressiveness around loss mitigation. Each and every company out there should be able to fulfill those two requirements when conducting business.

For future success, key executives should outline clear incentives, process and partnership changes. These three elements will keep a disaster from happening again. For example, as loans are being put together, we need to ensure that securitization documents need to be reviewed and possibly rewritten; a great case for proper process changes. The investors who own the loans need to form a tighter relationship to outline some common incentives. This will define a clear partnership where incentives are agreed upon. These investors also need to have leeway. Right now it’s contractually based, but there needs to be more agreement to ensure a successful outcome.

By making the necessary changes outlined, it will provide the end customer with more flexibility and stability in the future. This flexibility might provide someone with the opportunity to stay in their home, or different options to make payments. This will also ensure that the end customer has provided a lot more documentation prior to being granted funds they’ve requested. This crisis has taught us that we need improved risk management and reporting both internally and externally to ensure that risk is managed appropriately and that everyone involved is up-to-speed on how and why the transaction transpired.