Surviving the Credit Crunch: Tactics and Strategies for Loss Mitigation

09:07 | Paul Lancour | Oct 6th, 2008 4:51pm |

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 ...