Managing a Consumer Lending Business |  | Authors: David Lawrence, Arlene Solomon
Publisher: Solomon Lawrence Partners
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 303,319
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0971753709
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780971753709
ASIN: 0971753709
Publication Date: July 2002
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"Managing a Consumer Lending Business" summarizes the lore and the knowledge of the business as the new century begins. It covers many subjects a good manager should know: the importance of how to attract enough good accounts to offset the inevitable bad accounts that every lender will get, controlling line sizes, encouraging use by good customers/discouraging or controlling the bad customers, managing profitability with predictability, if he or she is to effectively run a high-volume consumer business.
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 Best in its Class January 19, 2004
RobRoy (Lakeview, Arkansas)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Managing a Consumer Lending Business is an excellent primer covering both fundamental practices and principles for safe and sound lending. This book covers the basics well and should be required reading for management trainees and those new to consumer lending. This 2002-published book is superior to older, now-obsolete books on consumer lending, and is spiced with anecdotes, quotes and references to mistakes that made headlines. The chapter on recessions is germaine and usually neglected by other books. The only criticisms are minor: a few too many references to the authors' consulting practice, and it would be improved by a chapter or two on securitization and the gain-on-sale practices.
A Comprehensive Guide October 24, 2003
G. Yu (New York, NY USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is very well written. It is about managing a healthy consumer lending business by using systematic ways to plan, acquire, and maintain a portfolio and by emphasizing quantitative tools to measure its performance and manage risks. I like this book also because it provides careful accounts about the history of this industry.
This book is an excellent reference for serious practitioners. Portfolio managers and financial analysts can acquire important concepts for managing their businesses. You might even be able to start your own consumer lending business by following the steps introduced in the book. Meanwhile, this is an attractive book for consumers to equip with extensive knowledge to deal with credit card issuers, collection companies and to take care of their mortgages and automobile loans, etc.
An Excellent Guide for Retail Banking Marketers Entering Lending Business October 22, 2006
Hung Chi Chao (Taiwan and Hong Kong.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In market place, there are few books that are easy to understand but comprehensive to cover all respective area of consumer lending business. I have to say, this is one of the few. In the past, I acquired the personal lending knowledge from some credit scoring books with difficult math and serious multi-variable statistics. This title is not only easy even for marketing or sales persons to understand the basic concept but also good for new credit analysts or college/graduate students who just joined the business to have a whole concept. Strongly recommend this title to those who are in the marketing or business planning roles in retail lending business. It could help bridge the knowledge gap about the lending business and create some common langague with other functions, especially credit and collection. However, for those in credit function, this title is good for overall understanding but not detailed or comprehensive enough for risk management.
Excellent book for beginners December 10, 2006
Nizamuddin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To people who are entering the profession of consumer lending, this is an excellent primer. It gives a 360 degree view of the business from acquisition and management of accounts to collections, recoveries and profitability analysis. While it doesn't cover any one topic in great depth, it is an ideal book for people starting off in this exciting business. I wish David Lawrence would write many more books. He has the art of explaining concepts in a clear manner. I really enjoyed this book.
Good primer for analysts looking for more domain knowledge September 5, 2006
Jeomoan Kurian
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Managing a Consumer Lending Business by David Lawrence and Arlene Solomon is a good primer I recommend for the readers of S4SAS.com and analysts working in the areas of consumer lending in general.
This book covers the fundamental principles of lending along with the practices at various product life cycles. While conducting SAS training, I observed that lot analysts do not know why managers look for some information and why they insist on certain format the information to be presented. After reading this book, the reader will have a background to understand the business requirements better and will be familiar with necessary lending related terminologies.
I found the following topics covered in the book useful for an analyst.
1. Overview to the consumer lending process and products.
2. Acquisition and direct mailing - segmentation, prescreen processes and practices.
3. The use of credit scoring, score monitoring and reporting process.
4. Portfolio Management and utilization of behavioral scores, strategy tracking.
5. Collection strategies and tactics
6. Private label credit cards and retail sales (dealer) financing.
8. Importance of Management Information systems.
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