Custom Limit and Collateral Management Software
In financial IT since 2005, ScienceSoft creates reliable and secure digital solutions tailored to each lender’s unique limit and collateral management operations.
Limit and Collateral Management Software: Key Aspects
Limit and collateral management software helps lenders effectively manage loan limits, collateral portfolios, and credit utilization risks. Such software automates collateral registering, valuation, and liquidation and provides real-time visibility of the limit utilization progress and compliance.
Custom limit and collateral management software often employs artificial intelligence to analyze real-time data on collateral values, exposures, and coverage ratios and instantly spot negative collateral performance trends. AI-powered custom solutions can automatically identify non-compliant loan limits and prescribe the proper credit thresholds to prevent financial and legal risks.
Custom solutions can be smoothly integrated with all required corporate and third-party systems, including legacy tools. They are also easier to evolve with new capabilities, compared to OOTB software.
- Important integrations: loan management software, accounting software, a lending analytics solution, local credit rating platforms, banking systems, financial data marketplaces, trading platforms, pledged asset tracking solutions, etc.
- Implementation time: 9–15+ months for a custom limit and collateral management system.
- Development costs: $200,000–$800,000+, depending on solution complexity. Use our free calculator to estimate the cost for your case.
Key Features of Limit and Collateral Management Software
ScienceSoft delivers limit and collateral management solutions with functionality tailored to each client’s automation needs. Below, our consultants list sample features for a robust limit and collateral management system to give you an idea of the capabilities custom software can provide.
Limit assignment
Loan officers can set up and manage custom loan limits for particular borrower segments and loan types (installment and revolving loans; commercial and consumer loans; secured, non-secured, and government-sponsored loans; group and syndicated loans).
Limit compliance control
Loan limit compliance is automatically verified against the lender’s internal policies and relevant regulations (e.g., FDIC and OCC guidelines for the US). Software instantly alerts on compliance breaches and suggests the proper loan limits to meet legal requirements.
Borrower data intake
Software relies on AI, RPA, and image analysis techs to automatically capture and process multi-format borrower data and collateral documents. AI verifies borrower solvency based on the data provided by borrowers and data from trusted third-party sources (e.g., banking systems, credit rating platforms).
Collateral registration
Collaterals get automatically registered in a centralized database or a blockchain ledger and allocated to one or several (for cross-collateralization) loans based on user-defined rules. Lenders can create custom registration templates for various types of collaterals: real estate, securities, commodities, equipment, etc.
Collateral valuation
Collaterals are valuated using AI or custom rules that consider asset liquidity and risks, available data on asset condition (for non-financial collaterals), and market prices for similar assets. Discounted collateral values are calculated based on custom formulas.
Borrower eligibility decisioning
Software provides an AI-supported or rule-based decision on borrower eligibility for the requested loan. For this, it analyzes the borrower’s debt-to-income ratio, the collateral coverage ratio, and a lender’s up-to-date capital, surplus and undivided profits (CUPS).
Collateral agreement management
Collateral officers can create collateral agreements with user-defined terms (the pledged asset type and value, coverage thresholds, insurance, seizure terms, etc.) from customizable templates. Software auto-populates the contracts with borrower data and updates them when the data changes.
Collateral portfolio management
Collateral portfolio structures can be designed to accommodate user-defined hierarchies and asset types. Interactive dashboards provide a real-time overview of accepted collaterals, collateral-associated transactions, and KPIs like collateral quality index, utilization rate, and risks.
Collateral exposure tracking and analysis
AI-powered software enables real-time recalculation and tracking of collateral values, coverage ratios, and exposures at the asset, asset class, borrower, business entity, and portfolio levels. It analyzes the as-is risk metrics vs. pre-set thresholds and instantly notifies loan officers of any gaps.
Collateral portfolio optimization
AI can be employed to analyze real-time data on collateral state, collateral asset market indices, and predefined portfolio performance metrics. AI-based solutions can suggest the optimal steps to minimize portfolio risks, e.g., implementing particular portfolio diversification or hedging strategies.
Credit utilization control
When integrated with the lender’s loan servicing system, the software enables real-time monitoring of the borrowers’ revolving credit balances. It calculates the up-to-date credit utilization ratios and tracks the outstanding debt amounts against the borrower-specific loan limits.
Collateral liquidation management
When a borrower repeatedly defaults on loan repayment, the software notifies the responsible employees to initiate collateral liquidation. It can automatically generate and send borrower notices on asset seizure, calculate the base value for the collateral and costs of a liquidation proceeding, and report borrower delinquency to regulators.
Collateral reporting
Reports are generated automatically from customizable templates (e.g., collateral performance reports provided to senior management, collateral valuation reports requested by borrowers) or according to a predefined compliant format (for regulatory reports, e.g., HDMA, FINRA, FHA, NCUA collateral reports).
Loan and collateral data protection
The software and sensitive lending data it stores are protected via role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, data encryption at rest and in transit, intelligent UEBA, and more. Custom solutions can provide compliance with SOX, SOC1 and SOC2, GDPR, NYDFS, CCPA, and other necessary data protection standards.
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