Loan Reviews

CEIS Review is an independently owned consulting firm offering loan review, loan loss reserve methodology and validation, credit risk rating systems, credit database creation and analysis, portfolio stress testing, portfolio acquisition review, loan policy maintenance and more.

CEIS Review is an independently owned consulting firm serving the needs of the commercial and savings bank communities as well as those of other commercial lending institutions.

Our services include loan review, loan loss reserve methodology and validation, credit risk rating systems, credit database creation and analysis, portfolio stress testing, portfolio acquisition review, loan policy maintenance, problem loan management, loan and credit workshops and seminars, and credit analysis.

Banks with an excellent portfolio quality often engage CEIS’ independent loan review service as a means to maintain the credit standards of their organization. Banks looking to improve the quality of their portfolios will retain CEIS to assist in determining an accurate reading of the risk profile, as well as provide practical recommendations for its improvement. Relying on an independent review firm may be attractive to a bank in its effort to eliminate the politics that can accompany the grading process.

CEIS loan review programs are implemented by experienced senior lenders who often have senior or executive level management experience. The professionals who deliver the CEIS product were associated with money market, regional banks, community banks, and commercial finance companies.

CEIS’ loan review programs are customized to the client's needs and are software assisted. The programs typically review over a twelve month period as much as 75% of the client's average outstanding loans and letters of credit. The loan reviews are conducted at specified intervals during the engagement period and address, at each visit, a sufficient sample to satisfy the twelve-month target. At each regularly scheduled review, we update the data and remarks regarding the previously criticized and classified loans.

Further, we review newly criticized or classified loans, delinquencies, non-accruals, restructured transactions, new and renewed commitments since the prior review visit, and when relevant, other borrower related credit exposures. We test the adequacy of the allowance for loan and lease losses as well as critique the organization's lending policies and procedures and overall lending process.

Loan Loss Reserve
CEIS analyzes and tests the methodology underlying the specific and general allocations that are applied in the client’s periodic assessment of loan loss reserves. CEIS analyzes the portfolio experience of the last five to ten years including the migration of loan grades, loss experience, reliability of loan grading system, changes in portfolio mix, trends in portfolio risk in view of concentrations such as large loan exposures, loan types, collateral types, industry and loan gradesm, delinquency and non-accrual trends, off balance sheet commitments, the loss experience of its “peers”, and other factors relevant to the client portfolio profile. After the “base report”, CEIS periodically updates the data, observations and conclusions. Learn more about Credit Grading System, Loan Grading System, Loan Loss Reserve Methodology (LLR Methodology), Loan Loss Reserve Validation.