[caption id="attachment_5680" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Rob Smith, Vice President"][/caption] Dallas, TX (January 10, 2012) – zIngenuity, Inc., a boutique consulting firm dedicated exclusively to advising mortgage lenders on mortgage finance matters, is pleased to announce that Rob Smith, Vice President has been named as the head of the Mortgage Analytics team. Rob, who started with zIngenuity in early 2009 when unprecedented mortgage defaults began to emerge, has established zIngenuity as the most reliable source to quantify mortgage pool losses in the industry. David Reber, President and CEO for zIngenuity, says “Rob came on-board at a time where rating agency and other loss models required material recalibration and we can honestly say that our loss estimates were and remain materially correct. Many of our customers have utilized our proprietary loss models for reserve forecasting, model validation and mortgage finance acumen to determine future actions on their mortgage insurance captives which hold millions of dollars in capital and billions of dollars in mortgage insurance risk.” He adds, “Today, Rob is working diligently with clients to negotiate resolutions on legacy mortgage risk including repurchase demands and mortgage insurance rescissions and denials. Additionally, Rob is working to establish solutions utilizing risk retention and captive reinsurance to help lenders, GSEs and mortgage insurance companies originate profitable high-LTV loans.”