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Humans in the Loop: Ensuring Trustworthy AI in Private ABF Deal Modeling
As generative AI becomes a powerful tool in Private asset-backed finance (ABF), the need for precision and transparency is more critical than ever. At RiskSpan,
June 2025 Models & Markets Update – Predictive Power Amid Economic Uncertai...
Register here for next month’s call: Thursday, July 17th, 2025, 1 p.m. Each month, we host a Models & Markets call to offer our insights
Private Credit Market Pulse: What LPs Want from Their Data and How to Deliv...
Limited Partners (LPs) continue to demand better data, faster, and with full transparency. At this week’s Private Credit Tech Summit in New York, I moderated
RiskSpan’s July 2025 Models & Markets Call
Register here for our next monthly model update call: Thursday, July 17th at 1:00 ET. For highlights from our most recent call (June), click here.
Design Smarter — How AI is Changing UX from Idea to Execution
AI is revolutionizing everything, and the UX design process is no exception. From the earliest conceptual ideas all the way through to final execution, the
Models & Markets Update – May 2025
Register here for next month's call: Friday, June 20th, 2025 (pushed back one day on account of Juneteenth). Each month, we host a Models &
Using LLMs as judges for validating deal cash flow models: A new frontier i...
As securitization models become increasingly complex and differentiated, validation becomes a critical challenge. We’ve experimented with an innovative approach that leverages large language models (LLMs)
Mounting Pressure in Non-QM Credit: What March 2025 Data Signals for Risk M...
This is a monthly update on non-QM delinquency rate and roll rate trends based on the March 2025 remittance data. Similar to last month's post,
RiskSpan’s April 2025 Models & Market Call: Credit Model v7, Prepay Volatil...
Register here for our next monthly model update call: Thursday, May 15th at 1:00 ET. Note: This post contains highlights from our April 2025 monthly
RiskSpan Announces the Appointment of Howard Kaplan and Susan Mills to Advi...
Arlington, VA – April 10, 2025 – RiskSpan, a leading provider of innovative analytics and risk management and data analytics for loans, securities and private
From AI Hype to Helpful Assistant: AI Agents are coming soon to the RiskSpa...
When agentic AI first hit the scene, we were intrigued—but skeptical. Was this just another over-hyped trend or something that could drive real value? Fast
Navigating the Bulk MSR Trading Market in 2025: Insights from Industry Expe...
Earlier this week, RiskSpan hosted a webinar featuring a panel of experts who provided a comprehensive look at the current state of the mortgage market,
RiskSpan’s Snowflake Tutorial Series: Ep. 1
Learn how to create a new Snowflake database and upload large loan-level datasets The first episode of RiskSpan's Snowflake Tutorial
The Curious Case of Curtailments
With more than 90% of mortgages out-of-the-money from a refinancing standpoint, the MBS market has rightly focused on activities that
A Practical Approach to Climate Risk
Assessment for Mortgage Finance
Note: The following is the introduction from RiskSpan's contribution to a series of essays on Climate Risk and the Housing
Video: Mortgage Market Evolution
As any mortgage market veteran will attest, the distribution and structure of the mortgage market is constantly in flux. When
MSR & Loan Trading Insights
RiskSpan's Edge Platform is the leading comprehensive data and mortgage analytics platform tailored for residential whole loan and MSR trading,
Case Study: How a leading loan and MSR investor reduced costs with a loan-level approach
Learn more about how one whole loan and MSR investor (a large mortgage REIT) successfully overhauled its analytics computational processing
Edge Platform Adds Fannie and Freddie Social Index Data
ARLINGTON, Va., January 18, 2023 -- RiskSpan, a leading technology company and the most comprehensive source for data management and
5 foundational steps for investors to move towards loan-level analyses
Are you curious about how your organization can uplevel the accuracy of your MSR cost forecasting? The answer lies in
Webinar Recording: New Mobility Trends: The Impacts of Covid & Climate
Recorded: Wednesday, January 25th | 2:00 p.m. EST As the Covid-19 pandemic began taking hold three years ago, very few
Case Study: Using Snowflake to Create Single Family Credit Risk Grids for a Federal Agency
The Client Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) The Problem The client sought to transition its ERCF spot capital reporting process from
Case Study: Hadoop to Snowflake Migration
The Client Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) The Problem The client sought to improve the performance and forecasting capabilities of its loan valuation
Temporary Buydowns are Back. What Does This Mean for Speeds?
Mortgage buydowns are having a deja-vu moment. Some folks may recall mortgages with teaser rates in the pre-crisis period. Temporary
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