Collateral Analytics
Investment and risk management signals– In your hands sooner, without the grunt work
Boost trading profits and efficiency with Edge. Be ready to act when opportunities arise by pre-analyzing RMBS performance data and ranking cohorts. Confirm relative credit value against benchmarks; value bonds with loan-level forecasts and Intex-integrated cash flows and analytics; and infer current prices with filtered market color. Analyze new issue deals with precision by linking loan and CDI files. Lift portfolio returns over time by using Edge’s risk signals to informing reweighting and leverage.
Filter Offers Efficiently
by Pre-Analyzing History
Query Edge’s rich private-label RMBS database (loan-level performance since before the Financial Crisis) to rank cohorts so you have a cheat sheet when deals arrive.
For example, run 100 shelves and rank credit losses and prepay speeds
When you see a top-ranking shelf or loan type, use Edge to value the deal precisely; when you see a low-ranking cohort, don’t spend time
See Relative Credit Value
by Benchmarking Bond, Collateral
View a bond’s credit support and collateral composition and performance alongside user-selected benchmarks.
Compare bond credit support and thickness
Visualize relative collateral credit quality with loan attribute distributions and delinquency, default, severity and prepay rates plotted over benchmarks
Spot risk pockets with collateral composition visuals, like geographic concentration maps and FICO-LTV scatterplots with color scaling to flag loans with additional risky features
Secure committee approval sooner by exporting presentation-ready visuals
Buy bonds due for ratings upgrades and sell bonds nearing ratings downgrades by tracking stress-scenario losses
Determine appropriate capital levels to hold by tracking stress-scenario losses
Refine Selectivity
with Loan-Level, Intex-Integrated Forecasts
Get the precise, robust valuations you need to sort under- and overpriced bonds. Replay the historical performance of collateral cohorts (Edge’s Curve Builder), run RiskSpan’s loan-level models, or input assumptions
Ensure risk is acceptable; run RiskSpan’s models under many economic outlooks
Find relative value across like bonds
Access the most complete and accurate deal coverage with Edge’s Intex integration
Beta: Apply Cohort History to Forecasts in a Click
Use Curve Builder (a forecast option) to:
Query aging curves for custom cohorts from Edge data
Apply curves to forecast default and severity on any bond; Edge dynamically weights the curves by the deal’s cohort balances and applies the curve from each loan’s current age
Compared to manual data manipulation, save time, add precision, and avoid errors
Sharpen New-Issue Bids by Linking Loan and CDI Files
Load a loan tape and Intex CDI file to:
See the loan credit quality vs. benchmarks
Forecast bond cash flows based on loan-level data
Infer Current Prices
with Filtered Market Color
See recent transaction prices of bonds that meet user-defined criteria
Triangulate to establish the current market price of your target bond
Complete valuation accounting and get independence from our valuation desk
RiskSpan’s Edge Platform makes it simple to ingest, organize, clean, and act on your data.
How reliable is your data?
Our team of quants and data
scientists is available on demand
to provide custom support.
How reliable is your data?
Our team of quants and data
scientists is available on demand
to provide custom support.