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Consumer Lending Program

This unique new training program gives your consumer lending-focused employees the tools they need to verify key client information, understand consumer regulations, underwrite the loan, and follow up to minimize fraud. The program emphasizes the competencies needed to review and analyze consumer lending requests.

OnDemand
June 3, 2024
June 26, 2024
Presented by Tom Carlin
1h 30m total length
$1,850.00 or 8 Tokens

Includes: 30 Days OnDemand Playback, Presenter Materials and Handouts

  • Accounting/Reporting
  • Lending
  • Management/Employee Development
  • Risk Management/Legal
  • Branch Manager
  • Consumer Lender/Retail Banker
  • Controller/Accountant
  • Credit Analyst
  • Loan Closer
  • Loan Operations Manager/Specialist
  • Risk Manager
  • Senior Management
  • Training Manager
  • Trainer

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This program consists of ten online self-paced courses and two webinars. The webinars will cover real lending scenarios, and participants will enter virtual breakout rooms for interactive small-group discussions. Live attendance is a must to get the most out of this engaging training opportunity. Breakout rooms will not be recorded. Space is limited to 30 participants for a high-value learning experience, so register today! Interested in a private training for your Financial Institution? Contact us to set up a private virtual training at the same low cost!

Students will independently work through the first five courses and assessments prior to the first webinar, Consumer Lending Program - Part 1. Students will then work through the final five courses and assessments prior to the second webinar, Consumer Lending Program - Part 2.

Included Webinars

  • Consumer Lending Program - Part 1
  • Consumer Lending Program - Part 2

Series Details

Consumer Lending Program - Part 1

Introduction to Consumer Credit         

The primary purpose of this course is to give participants an overview of consumer lending and the competitive marketplace. They will learn the basic characteristics of the consumer lending products offered by financial institutions, why financial institution offer consumer lending products and how they make profits from consumer loans.

Government Regulations and the Lending Process   

This course highlights the consumer regulations that affect every step of the consumer lending process from initial inquires, to making the loan decision and communicating the decision to the applicant. You will learn the reason behind the regulations and how regulations protect the borrower and the applicant.

The Five Stage Lending Process 

This course introduces participants to the Five-Stage Lending Process which provides a basic structure for processing, analyzing, documenting and following up on a consumer lending request. It gives participants a proper framework and helps ensure they have not forgotten any steps.

Taking the Application      

This course gives participants the tools to understand the information that is required on a consumer credit application and to properly respond to informal inquiries about consumer loans. It is essential to understand all the information required on the application in order to hold conversations with applicants in a manner that makes them feel comfortable. Key elements of the application include the reason for the request and whether the request is within policy. Participants also learn which types of identification are acceptable.

Investigating the Applicant – Part 1: Analyzing Credit Bureau Reports  

The purpose of the course is to investigate the applicant’s stability of employment and residence and willingness to repay the loan. Key elements in this process are to determine sources of income that are acceptable to repay a loan especially from both salaried and self- employed applicants. The willingness to repay the loan can be ascertained by analyzing a credit bureau report and their FICO credit score.

Consumer Lending Program - Part 2

Investigating the Applicant – Part 2: Analyzing Personal Financial Statements and Tax Returns     

This course focuses on the financial strength of the borrower. From the tax returns and personal financial statement, you will learn to calculate the applicant’s debt to income ratio and determine if it is sufficient to repay a loan. Understanding appraisals is also a key element when evaluating mortgage and home equity lending requests to determine if there is a sufficient secondary source or repayment.

Making the Loan Decision

The primary focus of this course is to use all the information gathered from the application, credit bureau report, personal financial statement and tax returns and actually make a loan decision. There are three possible decisions, yes, no or potentially making a counteroffer. It is essential to create a loan structure that matches the loan structure to the borrower’s needs. Secondary sources of repayment include collateral and understanding the procedures for accepting collateral and making sure the correct insurance is in place to reduce risk.

Processing the Loan        

This course focuses on gathering all the necessary documentation to perfect our security interest in the loan. It is essential to understand all the security agreements and the common documents in a consumer loan file.

Following up on the Loan 

As a lender, it is essential to protect your institution interest especially in the event of non-payment. You must learn to deal with different types of delinquents and to understand the legal options available, including Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcies.

Preventing Fraud   

In this course you learn the ways applicants can commit fraud and learn to take the necessary steps to prevent fraud from happening in the first place.

Who Should Attend

Consumer lending & underwriting staff, branch managers, assistant branch managers, operations staff, and personal/universal bankers would all benefit from this training.

Tom Carlin

Instructor Bio

An authority on financial and credit risk, Mr. Carlin is a Managing Partner at Eensight. He has worked with major banks, insurance companies and regulatory agencies over the last twenty years, designing and teaching financial topics including: basic, intermediate and advanced credit and financial statement analysis, business lending for branch bankers, accounting for bankers, basic intermediate and advanced cash flow analysis, loan structuring, consumer lending and trade finance. His audiences include business bankers, recent graduates going through the organizations basic credit training program, senior management personnel who need to know the basics of accounting and financial statement analysis, middle market lenders with many years of experience and regulatory agency personnel. Each program he designs and teaches is tailored to the individual customer with the products, procedures and culture of the organization incorporated into the course design. The complexity and intensity of the programs are adjusted to reflect the needs of the participants and the logistical training issues faced by the organization.

He is the author of Financial Statement Analysis published by the American Bankers Association in 1994. He is also the author of Consumer Lending, published by The Center for Financial Training in 2015.

He has designed and taught programs in risk analysis for Citibank, Wells Fargo, American International Group, Capital One, Chase Manhattan Bank, First Tennessee, M & T, Union Bank, and The Bank of China. He has also taught the Credit Risk Analysis Program at the Federal Reserve Bank.

Prior to Eensight, Mr. Carlin was a Regional Director for Omega Performance Corporation. He was also a Vice President with Bankers Trust in New York. He was responsible for marketing credit and trade finance products to corporate clients and correspondent banks worldwide.

Mr. Carlin has a Master of International Management degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Villanova University.

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