Factor climate change into your credit analysis operations and boost your success

When assessing a loan application, the focus has usually been on the applicant's creditworthiness in order to assess whether the applicant will be able to repay the loan. Because the asset to be financed, usually a property, can have a significant impact on the ability to repay the loan, an assessment of how well this asset will retain its value over the entire term of the contract is of immense importance.

This is particularly the case in times of climate change, when natural disasters not only occur more frequently but also cause greater damage. This is an additional risk whose reliable assessment, based on data that extends as far into the future as possible, is increasingly becoming one of the critical success factors for your business.

Location Risk Intelligence with its analysis and evaluation tools offers you exactly this possibility. By identifying climate risks for individual physical addresses as well as for entire portfolios, classified and weighted according to a wide range of hazard scores, it enables you to run your credit checks with a maximum of confidence.

Without factoring physical risk into pricing it is difficult for you as a credit analyst to improve the performance of your portfolio. The sooner you start the better, as you can avoid clever competitors adjusting their pricing and leaving you with a disproportionately risky portfolio. Under these circumstances, knowing your real risk exposure is critical to making profitable pricing decisions in the future, too.

Location Risk Intelligence provides you with powerful tools based on scientific findings to analyse the physical risks caused by natural hazards and climate change, and to take their financial impact into account.

This enables you to make your clients attractive offers despite the increasing risks of natural disasters, while at the same time taking into account the consequences of climate change. A competitive advantage you should not miss out on.

Selecting risks in a credit model is becoming increasingly difficult, because as a credit analyst you need to consider more numerous and increasingly complex influencing factors in order to remain successful.

The sheer volume of data to consider slows down processes, and there is often a lack of clarity about which data is relevant and which can be ignored. A data-driven risk assessment tool can be instrumental in enhancing human judgement, guaranteeing your long-term success.

Location Risk Intelligence reliably provides you with up-to-date data based on the latest scientific findings and presented in a variety of visualisations. This means you can clearly interpret even complex risk data and use it immediately to make far-reaching risk-related decisions and meet regulatory requirements, thus ensuring a healthy and stable finance system.

Particularly in large portfolios with thousands of assets, the riskiest ones can only be identified with the greatest attention to detail and corresponding effort. And due to climate change, risks that were previously classified as safe can often change within very short periods of time.

However, using the latest risk models and software tools, such as those included in the Location Risk Intelligence editions, risks can be identified much earlier. Qualitative and quantitative predictions can then be made in relation to the risk exposure of individual assets or entire portfolios with up to 5 million locations, enabling you to tailor your exposure to your risk strategy.

Capacity optimisation is another essential factor that plays a key role in credit underwriting and determines your success.

You can ensure that the overall level of your risks is in line with your risk strategy by using the tools of Location Risk Intelligence to analyse your portfolios against the latest and most scientifically sound climate risk data. This enables you to identify high-risk exposures and reduce them reliably where necessary.

In this way, you ensure the success of your company and remain as competitive as possible in a rapidly changing environment.