This course introduces the concept of Credit Cost Drivers within the Housing Finance Credit framework. It focuses on identifying and analyzing the key factors that influence the overall cost of credit, including borrower defaults, recovery effectiveness, and operational inefficiencies that impact portfolio profitability and sustainability.
Learners will explore key assessment dimensions such as evaluating default drivers, analyzing recovery performance and loss severity, and identifying operational inefficiencies in credit origination, servicing, and collections, with an emphasis on independent validation and well-documented rationale. The course highlights how elements like delinquency trends, recovery timelines, cost-to-collect, and collateral realization directly affect credit costs and portfolio performance. It also examines the interaction between these drivers and external factors such as economic conditions and borrower behavior.
The course distinguishes credit cost drivers from broader portfolio diversification strategies, emphasizing their role in cost analysis, performance monitoring, and breach response at the exposure and segment level rather than portfolio-level risk distribution.
By the end of the course, participants will understand how to identify, measure, and manage credit cost drivers in practice, particularly within Portfolio Analytics, Stress, and Capital Optimisation. The course also emphasizes the role of the credit manager in validating team-level analysis, approving case recommendations, and managing segment-level exposure within Housing Finance Credit, including adherence to analytical standards, documentation quality, and escalation protocols aligned with credit committee priorities.