Retail Lending Credit Scoring will be held May 17 and 18, 2005, followed by Retail Lending Portfolio Analytics on May 19 and 20, 2005, both in Las Vegas, Nevada. Subsequent series are planned for Asia and Australia later in 2005.
PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 14, 2005) – Following the success of joint courses offered last year, the Risk Management Association (RMA) and Strategic Analytics are partnering again to offer two courses in retail lending analytics: Retail Lending Credit Scoring and Retail Lending Portfolio Analytics.
The Retail Lending Credit Scoring course reviews all major aspects of credit scoring—from data preparation and variable selection to score deployment, management, and monitoring—creating a basic understanding of the philosophy and the practice. Modelers and analysts will learn the specific characteristics of credit data, including the limitations and modeling techniques. Marketing and finance professionals also will benefit, as scoring is part of the decision science now being applied in these fields as well.
The Retail Lending Portfolio Analytics course focuses on the key drivers of portfolio performance and portfolio modeling approaches that range from classical to leading-edge. There will be an emphasis given to integrating all of these modeling efforts so that results can be coordinated across business functions and loan products. The course is designed for decision-makers in this area, including analysts, modelers, portfolio managers, and marketing professionals.
Developed by Strategic Analytics team members Joseph Breeden, Michael Smith, and Frank Saavedra-Lim in coordination with RMA, the courses include training exercises with computers to create a more “hands-on” environment. Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers.
Retail Lending Credit Scoring will be held May 17 and 18, 2005, followed by Retail Lending Portfolio Analytics on May 19 and 20, 2005, both in Las Vegas, Nevada. Subsequent series are planned for Asia and Australia later in 2005.
About RMA
Founded in 1914, the Risk Management Association is a nonprofit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has 3,000 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as non-bank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by 16,000 risk management professionals in North America and numerous cities overseas, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, and London. Members meet regularly through RMA's strong chapter network.
About Strategic Analytics
Strategic Analytics delivers innovative analytical software and services that enable our clients to build more profitable and less volatile portfolios. An increasing number of the world's largest banks and finance companies use our LookAhead™ Portfolio Intelligence and Forecasting software to better understand portfolio credit risk, predict long-range customer value, and forecast portfolio performance under a wide range of management and environmental scenarios.