Michael Blum Consulting ("MBC") offers a broad range of professional consulting, problem solving and valuation services for complicated mortgage-backed securities and resecuritizations. As Principal, Michael Blum has over 25 years experience in the fixed-income markets employed by or providing consulting services to Goldman Sachs, Lehman and Nomura along with numerous buy-side clients.

MBC can help with::

• CDO forensics and decomposition
• CMBS risk analysis and valuation using Trepp, Intex and/or Bloomberg
• RMBS risk analysis with Intex
• CMBS and RMBS surveillance
• Structured finance deal optimization (CMBS, RMBS, Project Loan, Small Bal. Comm'l)
• Market color
• Using the Intex API via C/C++, Perl, or VBA to query their database
• Loan warehouse hedging
• Loan pricing via mock securitization
• Retrieval and interpretation of CMBS servicer reports and watchlists
• Retrieval and interpretation of trustee remittance reports