July 13th | 1:00 p.m. ET
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Featured Speakers
Co-Founder and CIO, RiskSpan
Managing Director, RiskSpan
April 14th | 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET
With both the public and private sectors increasingly making climate risk management a priority, attention in our industry is turning to what it means for mortgage loan and MSR investors.
Industry experts join RiskSpan and Housing Finance Strategies for a roundtable event where they engage in a discussion on the latest approaches and technology for mitigating climate risk management in mortgage portfolios.
The loan-level cash flows discussed in this webinar were generated using RiskSpan’s Edge Platform.
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Agenda (all times Eastern)
2:00-2:05 pm | WELCOME AND PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Faith Schwartz, Founder & CEO, Housing Finance Strategies
2:05-2:20 pm | CLIMATE RISK’S IMPACT ON MORTGAGE FINANCE AND TOOLS TO MANAGE RISK
Janet Jozwik, Senior Managing Director and Head of Climate Risk, RiskSpan
Dan Raizman, Global Resilience Manager, Verisk Analytics
2:20-3:00 pm | PANEL DISCUSSION: CLIMATE RISK IN HOUSING FINANCE—RISK MANAGEMENT AND REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES
Faith Schwartz, Moderator
Mark Hanson, SVP, Freddie Mac
Kurt Johnson, CRO, Mr. Cooper
Sean Becketti, former Freddie Mac
Bernadette Kogler, CEO, RiskSpan
3:00-3:15 pm | QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION OF POLLING RESULTS
Recorded: February 16th | 1:00 p.m. ET
Geocoding remains a particularly vexing challenge for the mortgage industry. Lenders, servicers, and loan/MSR investors know the addresses of the properties securing their mortgage assets. But most data pertaining to climate and other ESG considerations is available only by matching to a census tract or latitude/longitude.
And if you have ever tried mapping addresses, you know this exercise can be a lot harder than it looks. Fortunately, a growing body of geocoding tools and techniques is emerging to make the process more manageable than ever, even with less than perfect address data.
Our panel presents a how-to guide on geocoding logic and its specific application to the mortgage space. You will learn a useful waterfall approach for linking census-tract-level, geo-specific data for climate risk and ESG to the property addresses in your portfolio.
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Featured Speakers
Chief Innovation Officer, RiskSpan
Manager, RiskSpan
Software Engineer, RiskSpan
On Tuesday, November 16th RiskSpan CEO Bernadette Kogler joined fellow Women in Securitization NextGen panelists Beth O’Brien, Adama Kah, and Libby Cantrill, CFA to discuss Seizing Opportunites at Every Stage of Your Career, moderated by Structured Finance Association President Kristi Leo.
Watch here: https://structuredfinance.org/women-in-securitization/ 
Topics included:
- Why it’s essential to take risks in your career
- How to seize opportunities and take on challenges
- Leveraging an entrepreneurial spirit when exploring possibilities that don’t align with a preset career path – and taking that leap
Few-shot and one-shot learning models continue to gain traction in a growing number of industries – particularly those in which large training and testing samples are hard to come by. But what about mortgages? Is there a place for few-shot learning where datasets are seemingly so robust and plentiful?
A growing body of evidence suggests that the high dimensionality of mortgage data spaces may actually make them ideal candidates for few-shot learning.
Suhrud Dagli and Jing Liu present the latest installment in RiskSpan’s Data & Machine Learning Workshop series. Suhrud and Jing share examples of how they are using few-shot learning techniques in prepayment modeling and in automating quality control checks on uploaded mortgage data.
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Featured Speakers
Co-Founder and CIO, RiskSpan
Jing Liu
Senior Analyst, RiskSpan
Recorded: August 4th | 1:00 p.m. EDT
Completing the risk sections of Form PF, AIFMD, Open Protocol and other regulatory filings requires submitters to first compute an extensive battery of risk analytics, often across a wide spectrum of trading strategies and instrument types. This “pre-work” is both painstaking and prone to human error. Automating these upstream analytics greatly simplifies life downstream for those tasked with completing these filings.
RiskSpan’s Marty Kindler walks through a process for streamlining delta equivalent exposure, 10 year bond equivalent exposure, DV01/CS01, option greeks, stress scenario impacts and VaR in support not only of downstream regulatory filings but of an enhanced, overall risk management regime.
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Featured Speaker
Managing Director, RiskSpan
Recorded: June 30th | 1:00 p.m. EDT
Nick Young, Head of RiskSpan’s Model Risk Management Practice, and his team of model validation analysts walk through the most important regulatory updates of the past 18 months from the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC pertaining to enterprise risk management in general (and model risk management in particular).
Nick’s team present tips for ensuring that your policies and practices are keeping up with recent changes to AML and other regulatory requirements.
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Featured Speakers
Head of Model Risk Management, RiskSpan
RiskSpan’s Edge Platform is supported by a dynamic team of professionals who live and breathe mortgage and structured finance data. They know firsthand the challenges this type of data presents and are always experimenting with new approaches for extracting maximum value from it.
In this series of complimentary workshops our team applies machine learning and other innovative techniques to data that asset managers, broker-dealers and mortgage bankers care about.
Check out our recorded workshops
Measuring and Visualizing Feature Impact & Machine Learning Model Materiality
RiskSpan CIO Suhrud Dagli demonstrates in greater detail how machine learning can be used in input data validations, to measure feature impact, and to visualize how multiple features interact with each other.
Structured Data Extraction from Images Using Google Document AI
RiskSpan Director Steven Sun shares a procedural approach to tackling the difficulties of efficiently extracting structured data from images, scanned documents, and handwritten documents using Google’s latest Document AI Solution.
Pattern Recognition in Time Series Data
Traders and investors rely on time series patterns generated by asset performance to inform and guide their trading and asset allocation decisions. Economists take advantage of analogous patterns in macroeconomic and market data to forecast recessions and other market events. But you need to be able to spot these patterns in order to use them.
Advanced Forecasting Using Hierarchical Models
Traditional statistical models apply a single set of coefficients by pooling a large dataset or for specific cohorts. Hierarchical models learn from feature behavior across dimensions or timeframes. This informative workshop applies hierarchical models to a variety of mortgage and structured finance use cases.
Quality Control with Anomaly Detection (Part I)
Outliers and anomalies refer to various types of occurrences in a time series. Spike of value, shift in level or volatility or a change in seasonal pattern are common examples. RiskSpan Co-Founder & CIO Suhrud Dagli is joined by Martin Kindler, a market risk practitioner who has spent decades dealing with outliers.
Quality Control with Anomaly Detection (Part 2)
Suhrud Dagli presents Part 2 of this workshop, which dove into mortgage loan QC and introduce coding examples and approaches for avoiding false negatives using open-source Python algorithms in the Anomaly Detection Toolkit (ADTK).
Applying Few-Shot Learning Techniques to Mortgage Data
Few-shot and one-shot learning models continue to gain traction in a growing number of industries – particularly those in which large training and testing samples are hard to come by. But what about mortgages? Is there a place for few-shot learning where datasets are seemingly so robust and plentiful?
Recorded: May 26th | 1:00 p.m. ET
The SEC’s new Rule 2a-5 has important ramifications for anyone in the business of pricing hard-to-value instruments. It requires valuation practitioners to demonstrate good faith in implementing and following a defensible and transparent processes. But what does this mean as a practical matter?
On Wednesday, May 26th experts David Baum and Martin Dozier of Alston & Bird and Bill Moretti and Joe Sturtevant of RiskSpan explained and responded to your questions about:
- What the new requirements are
- Who is impacted and when
- Implementation best practices
- Potential issues with Rule 17a-7, and
- Modeling considerations, including assumptions, back-testing, calibration, and data management.
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Featured Speakers
Senior Managing Director, RiskSpan
Partner, Investment Management, Trading and Markets Group, Alston & Bird LLP
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Head of Valuation Services, RiskSpan
Recorded: May 19 | 1:00 p.m. ET
Last month, RiskSpan’s Suhrud Dagli and Martin Kindler outlined the principles underlying anomaly detection and its QC applications related to market data and market risk. You can view a recording of that workshop here.
On Wednesday, May 19th, Suhrud presented Part 2 of this workshop, which dove into mortgage loan QC and introduce coding examples and approaches for avoiding false negatives using open-source Python algorithms in the Anomaly Detection Toolkit (ADTK).
RiskSpan presents various types of detectors, including extreme studentized deviate (ESD), level shift, local outliers, seasonal detectors, and volatility shift in the context of identifying spike anomalies and other inconsistencies in mortgage data. Specifically:
- Coding examples for effective principal component analysis (PCA) loan data QC
- Use cases around loan performance and entity correction, and
- Novelty detection
Co-founder and CIO, RiskSpan
Managing Director, RiskSpan
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