This course introduces the concept of Borrower Leverage Behaviour Assessment within the Loan Against Shares (LAS) Credit framework. It focuses on assessing borrower tendencies to aggressively leverage listed securities, increase exposure concentrations, utilise repeated drawdowns, and engage in high-risk borrowing behaviour that may amplify margin stress and collateral volatility within secured lending operations.
Learners will explore key assessment dimensions such as borrower behavioural analysis, management of credit against listed securities, margin maintenance governance, and concentration risk evaluation, with an emphasis on independent validation and well-documented rationale. The course highlights how borrower leverage behaviour assessment influences exposure stability, portfolio quality, margin risk management, operational oversight, governance effectiveness, and overall portfolio resilience. It also examines how weak or inaccurate behavioural assessments can result in excessive leverage build-up, concentration vulnerabilities, governance weaknesses, operational inefficiencies, elevated liquidation risk, recovery challenges, and heightened portfolio stress within LAS portfolios.
The course distinguishes borrower leverage behaviour assessment from the broader credit approval process, emphasizing its role in ongoing exposure-level behavioural monitoring, structured leverage pattern analysis, concentration risk evaluation, and corrective action management, whereas the credit approval process focuses more broadly on initial borrower assessment, underwriting alignment, repayment capacity evaluation, and lending decision authority. Each requires distinct evidence standards, ownership, and approval authority.
By the end of the course, participants will understand how to design, assess, and implement borrower leverage behaviour assessment frameworks in practice, particularly within LAS Portfolio Analytics and Behavioural Insights functions. The course also emphasizes the role of the credit manager in validating team-level analysis, approving case recommendations, and managing segment-level exposure within Loan Against Shares (LAS) Credit, ensuring disciplined collateral governance, sustainable exposure management, and alignment with credit committee priorities.