The Vega team and experts have significant experience consulting and providing expert testimony regarding consumer finance including mortgages, student loans, auto loans, lines of credit, and credit and debit cards. We have been engaged by both the leading providers of these consumer finance products as well as classes of consumers. Experts in our Consumer Finance practice include academics and industry professionals that use sophisticated models to analyze consumer behavior in both litigation and regulatory investigations.

Our team is experienced using large datasets to address issues in these engagements. Vega has state of the art capabilities to efficiently and securely manage sensitive consumer data. 

Below is a list of example engagements for our Consumer Finance practice:

Sumit Agarwal

Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore

  • Consumer Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Real Estate
Daphne Chen

Managing Director, Vega Economics

  • Consumer Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Data Science & Statistics
  • Labor & Employment
  • Securities & Finance
Andra Ghent

Professor at University of Utah

  • Securities & Finance
  • Consumer Finance
  • Real Estate
Myron S. Glucksman

  • Financial Institutions
  • Securities & Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Consumer Finance
Edward Morrison

Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

  • Bankruptcy & Insolvency
  • Valuation
  • Consumer Finance
Christopher Palmer

Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Securities & Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Consumer Finance
  • Financial Institutions
Meir Statman

Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

  • Securities & Finance
  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
  • Consumer Finance
James A. Wilcox

Professor of the Graduate School, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

  • Consumer Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Institutions
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