preview

Essay On Executive Loan

Decent Essays

One Year in Executive Loan Review For the last year almost without exception I have had the opportunity to attend Executive Loan Review every week. What follows are what I have identified as main themes from these meetings. Purpose: It may seem that the purpose of loan review is to learn how to be a better lender. While I have learned a great many things about lending in these meetings, that education is largely incidental to the primary purpose. That purpose is to understand the risk appetite of the Credit Union. By risk appetite is meant both the amount and type of risk that Utah First is willing to acquire so as to succeed in our mission as a financial institution. While Policy 7150 outlines the portfolio targets, Executive Loan …show more content…

By “why us” we want to understand the relationship. Occasionally we as lenders can miss this mark and get caught up in the purpose of the loan and neglect finding a true motive. That is, a member may say that they are applying for a credit card so that they can build credit. Building credit is very likely not a true motive. We want to know why they have that desire. As is often asked in loan review “did they just wake up one day with a desire to build credit?” We need to understand true motive to be able to be significant for the member and make an informed credit decision. While the motive entails “why us” and “why now” we also want to answer the question “why this.” We want to be able to find the best solution for our member that we can. This entails finding the right product as well as cleaning the plate. The next six questions help us do this. They can be split into two categories. First is further understanding our relationship with the borrower. We want to know if we are their PFI, if they have a checking account, etc. Second is assessing the full financial picture. We want to understand what they drive, their income, their assets, their ratios, and which way the credit score is trending. These principles all lead back to the question “do we believe they will pay us back?” Ratios, income, and assets help us understand the member’s capacity to pay the loan back. Relationship and credit history help us assess if our member has a pattern of

Get Access