Leighton’s areas of expertise include credit risk consulting, mortgage insurance, loan defect insurance, credit insurance, and mortgage market analytics. He has performed work and taken the lead on projects for mortgage insurers, property and casualty insurers, reinsurers, and top mortgage lenders, including credit unions, law firms, specialty financial institutions, and government agencies. Leighton also has experience working on projects involving student and auto loan lending, reserve evaluations, rate analyses, residual value insurance, non-payment insurance, bankers professional liability, financial institution bonds, and other financial modeling. He has managed the development of business intelligence reporting through data visualizations for clients. Recently, Leighton developed a modeling framework that sequences catastrophe models with credit risk models to quantify the impacts of climate change to mortgage investors and key stakeholders.
