This course introduces the concept of Loss Given Default (LGD) Assumption Design within the Consumer LAP (Loan Against Property) Credit framework. It focuses on designing LGD assumptions that accurately reflect recovery behaviour, collateral performance, enforcement timelines, and cost considerations within secured lending operations.
Learners will explore key assessment dimensions such as designing LGD assumptions reflecting recovery behaviour and collateral performance, evaluating recovery cost considerations, and interpreting credit risk implications, with an emphasis on independent validation and well-documented rationale. The course highlights how LGD assumption design influences capital allocation, provisioning accuracy, loan-to-value calibration, pricing discipline, recovery expectations, stress-testing outcomes, and long-term portfolio resilience. It also examines how weak or poorly calibrated LGD assumptions can result in understated loss expectations, inaccurate risk pricing, insufficient capital buffers, governance weaknesses, collateral overreliance, and deterioration in portfolio quality across Consumer LAP portfolios.
The course distinguishes LGD assumption design from broader portfolio diversification strategies, emphasizing its role in exposure-level recovery assessment, structured breach identification, collateral governance, and corrective action management, whereas diversification strategies focus more broadly on balancing aggregate exposures across borrower segments, geographies, collateral categories, and broader portfolio risk concentrations. Each requires distinct evidence standards, ownership, and approval authority.
By the end of the course, participants will understand how to design, assess, and implement LGD assumption frameworks in practice, particularly within LTV, Exposure, and Concentration Risk Design functions. The course also emphasizes the role of the senior credit leader in setting portfolio limits, governing exception criteria, and driving strategic alignment across the Consumer LAP Credit function, ensuring disciplined recovery governance, sustainable collateral risk management, and alignment with credit committee priorities.