Finance & Leasing Companies Analysis

Course Objectives

Participants will be equipped to:

• Distinguish the key business and financial risks for the different types of finance and leasing company: captive, consumer, sales finance, credit card, mortgage and operating and finance lease companies
• Identify strong and weak performers using benchmarks for the key asset quality, earnings, liquidity and capital adequacy indicators
• Use market indicators, quantitative and qualitative analysis to and detect early signals of changing credit quality
• Evaluate financial statements to uncover key credit issues and the impact of differing accounting policies.

Target Audience

An intermediate credit course for experienced commercial, investment banking and fixed income professionals responsible for credit risk management, origination, or fixed income investment, sales/trading. Participants with less experience in the analysis of financial statements may wish to attend the two day Introduction to Bank Financial Statements, which leads into this workshop.

Content

ANALYTIC OVERVIEW

• Perspective on finance and leasing companies - rating agencies, debt and equity investors
• Purpose payback model - dependence of finance companies on debt capital markets for refinance
• Risks to repayment - sector and company-specific analysis
• Structure - protecting lender's interests: warehouse and borrowing base facilities and other structural issues.

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

• Key risks and competitive issues by sub-sector - sales finance, direct finance, equipment finance, credit cards and mortgages etc.
• Impact of minimal regulation and supervision; legal framework of secured lending.

MANAGEMENT, FRANCHISE AND OWNERSHIP

• Franchise - assessing the validity of the business model, residual marketing and reliance on parent company, where relevant
• Critical management issues - strategy, risk appetite, processes and systems, market knowledge etc.
• Shareholders - quality of financial and business support; risks and benefits of cross subsidies.

FINANCIAL FUNDAMENTALS

• Statement logic; accounting policies for income, receivables, delinquencies and leases (finance versus capital leases etc.)
• Business risk - use of financial tools to assess quality of lease and loan book; reserve adequacy, owned versus managed book; residual risk
• Funding risk - stability and variety of wholesale funding sources, gap management, availability of contingency funding, liquidity and capital adequacy
• Securitization - benefits and risk of off balance sheet funding vehicles; residual risk, mortgage servicing rights and gain on sale accounting
• Performance risk - balancing risk and return; income stability and expense control
• Early warning signals - lessons learned from failed finance companies.

Workshop Times

Below are typical timings for our courses; upon registration we shall advise you if these have changed.

Breakfast: 8.30am
Course Start: 9.00am
Course End: Between 5.00pm and 5.30pm
Lunch starts between 12.30pm and 1.00pm, and lasts no longer than 1 hour.
Short breaks of 10 - 15 minutes are taken mid morning and mid afternoon.