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Study Group: Student Loan Consolidation Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 22

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on commercial banking, retail banking, asset management, mortgages, consumer finance, exchanges, capital markets, transaction processing, credit cards, insurance, and business services.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

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Sue Roberts
Independent Consultant
Sue Roberts

Sue Roberts is currently an independent consultant focusing on the student lending industry. She has over 19 years of senior management experience in student lending, and until May, 2007, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Student Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of College Loan Corporation. From...

Kathy Cannon
Consultant
Kathleen Cannon

Kathy Cannon is a California-based Independent Student Lending Consultant, currently working to develop competitive strategies to meet the rapidly changing student loan market. Previously, Ms. Cannon was the Senior Vice President and Head of Student Banking Services at Bank of America, where she was...

Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory ServicesRaj Mehra
President & Founder
Chelsea Advisory Services

Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of experience in areas such as banking, subprime mortgages, credit card, auto and student lending. Mr. Mehra is an expert in securitization and structured...

J. Barry Morrow
FormerPresident
Collegiate Funding Services LLC

Mr. Morrow was until 2006 the Chief Executive Officer of Collegiate Funding Services (acquired by JPMorgan Chase Bank), and previously served as the Chief Operating Office from 2000 to 2002. He also served as the General Manager of Financial Services for the Office of Student Financial Assistance, a...

Catriona Macdonald
President
LINCHPIN STRATEGIES, LLC

Catriona Macdonald is the President of Linchpin Strategies in Washington, DC, which specializes in helping private businesses and grassroots organizations develop and present federal policy and legislative agendas. Ms. Macdonald has over ten years of experience in working in federal policy circles....

James Gathard
Principal
National Consulting Services, LLC

Jim Gathard, was until May 2008, a student lending executive at Bank of America, where he represented the product internally to consumer products groups and externally to key financing partners. Prior to Bank of America, he was a VP and Strategic Planning Executive for JPMorgan Chase Education Finance....

Robert Moore
FormerPresident
Chase Education Finance

Robert D. Moore was until March 2006, the President of Chase Education Finance. Chase Education Finance is the largest US student lender, serving over 2500 schools. Prior to serving as President of Chase Education Finance, Mr. Moore was the President of Bank One's Education Finance Group from 1996...

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Low Loan Loss Reserves at Banks Could Cause Problems Ahead | 09-20-2007
Analysis of: E*Trade Hit By Mortgage Turmoil | online.wsj.com
Author: Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory Services

Loan loss reserves at banks are at historic lows. At the same time, the credit cycle has turned viciously negative, particularly for mortgages. Banking regulators are likely to ratchet the pressure up on banks to raise their loss reserves. The most vulnerable are banks with outsized exposure to the...

Countrywide Spells Out Its Strategy to Manage Credit Market Crisis | 09-10-2007
Author: Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory Services

Countywide's announcement late last Friday and Angelo Mozilo's letter to employees provide a unique window into CFC's strategy for addressing the impact of the credit crisis on its business. The letter provides details on the steps that CFC is taking to shelter itself from the fallout. Unfortunately,...

Writedowns of Retained Interests Could be Next Shoe to Drop for Subprime Lenders | 09-05-2007
Analysis of: NovaStar to Slash Lending and Cut Jobs | www.nytimes.com
Author: Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory Services

Retained interests from securitizations made up more than 75% of the shareholder's equity at NFI. Also, the company has elected to finance these securities. Demand, never very strong to begin with, has deteriorated severely in the last month. The company could be forced to recognize a sizeable...

Why the Alt-A Originate-To-Sell Mortgage Business Model Could No Longer Be Viable in a Declining Real Estate Market | 08-29-2007
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Alt-A Mortgage Sector Strategist (Robert Eng, CEO Strategist Network) says, “the Alt-A originate-to-sell mortgage business model might not be viable in a declining real estate market.”  There are three main reasons for this.  1) Alt-A (stated income) loans may tend to contain areas of...

Thoughts on the impact on third quarter earnings from the crisis in subprime mortgages | 08-27-2007
Author: Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory Services

Several banks will be closing their third quarter soon. The credit crisis intensified in the third quarter - what impact should we expect to see from the bankruptcies, plummeting market values, the virtual demise of the collateralized debt obligations market etc. - Some banks will write down goodwill...

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