Today Marlin & Associates client Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSK) announced the acquisition of Strategic Analytics, a leading provider of credit risk and capital management solutions to consumer and mortgage lenders. As part of the Interthinx business unit of Verisk Analytics, Strategic Analytics will provide customers advanced solutions and professional services critical to loss forecasting and the stability of the U.S. residential mortgage market.
Through Strategic Analytics, Interthinx will offer various mortgage risk analytics products. The Mortgage Risk ModelTM (MRM) gives retail lenders access to a comprehensive mortgage loan-level database – incorporating the vast majority of non-agency loans for the residential mortgage-backed securities market. Forecasting technology is available to incorporate significant measures of origination quality, maturation effects, and environmental factors into analytics tests that traditional roll-rate modeling methodologies cannot effectively capture.