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Balance Sheet Management Solution
Balance Sheet Management Solution
The Challenge: More Holistic and Forward-looking Balance Sheet Risk Management in a
Stricter Regulatory Environment
The industry and regulatory response to the market dislocations that began in 2008 have sparked renewed interest in ALM.
More traditional ALM approaches did not foresee or prevent the credit crisis which emerged in 2008. This acknowledgment
of industry gaps and the emergence of strong regulatory reform is changing the way banks perform their asset and liability
management. To remain competitive, banks must improve risk measurement and management to better align risk and capital.
In particular, ALM professionals are being challenged to tie risk to decision making in a more holistic and granular way.
Interest
Funds Transfer Liquidity Risk
Rate Risk
Pricing (FTP) Management
Management
Moodys Analytics offers a robust platform, modeling expertise and comprehensive data resources for essential asset liability management.
The Toolbox
Multi-Currency Capability allows users to run scenario analysis Market Data Manager centrally manages all capital markets
on exchange rates to measure balance sheet Foreign Exchange time series to ensure coherent and uniform usage across the
(FX) risk exposures. The solution also permits the quantification of enterprise. The interest rates, foreign exchange rates, currencies,
FX exposure to improve FX risk management strategies. counterparties and market data is easily accessible to assign
scenario based assumptions to each forecasted computation.
Chart of Account (COA) Structure organizes all financial Balance Sheet Strategy Capability permits users to specify
instruments on a banks balance sheet into a tree-like structure future balance sheet activity based on their most recent bank data.
and is the fundamental building block for risk methodology, Users have the flexibility to target new volumes, average balances,
assumptions, and navigation. The solution maintains a single or ending balances. The Balance Sheet Strategy can be constructed
COA to ensure compatibility of data, processing and results in the Excel software environment and is integrated with the cash
and provides a high level of consistency between all levels of flow engine, allowing for dynamic net interest income simulations
the application. Contractual characteristics, client behavior, FTP under multiple scenarios or to forecast the economic value of
methods, and more, can all be specified at the account level. equity across time and under multiple interest rate scenarios.
Advanced Formula Builder permits users to exercise a high Parameter Deal Mapping (PDM) groups financial instruments at
degree of customization through a scripted language that is easy the deal level into cohorts of deals that can be used to parameterize
and intuitive. It leverages mathematical operators and functions different types of behavior, assumptions, and calculations. PDM
in order to access and manipulate bank data, market data, or cash offers users a high degree of flexibility in grouping bank deals
flow engine results. together for specific analysis computations and the granularity to
assign behavioral assumptions to those deals.
F orecast optional cash flows based on simple to complex alculate historical Value at Risk (VaR) for both the
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behaviors via a multi-factor behavior model trading book and the banking book
Calculate precise contractual and optional cash flows anage line of credit facilities with three proprietary
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draw and repayment approaches
Maintain data integrity during ETL process
Improve data during ETL process
Plan new volumes for purposes of dynamic net interest income simulation with Defining, uploading, and reviewing market rates, economic indices, and
an intuitive user interface and powerful formula builder for defining new volume currencies is easy with the intuitive RiskConfidence solution user interface.
functions and specifying interrelationships between other accounts. State of the art analytics enable trading desk quality calculations.
Liquidity Coverage Ratio Behavioral models: Cash flow simulation Cumulative Cash Flow Analysis
Net Stable Funding Ratio - Non-Maturity Liabilities Liquidity allocation Scenario Simulation
- Short-Term Liabilities ALM Collateral Inflow / Outflow
- Usage and Revolving FTP Analysis
Credit Facilities Collateral Stress Testing
- Prepayments Funding Stress testing
Funding models Comprehensive Liquidity
Margin and collateral management Analysis and Review (CLAR)
Selloff scenarios & haircuts Early warning models
Contingent Liquidity & Buffers
Duration of Equity & Profitability
Leverage our ALM and Liquidity Management Services to Answer Key Questions including:
How do I meet the new regulatory requirements covering ALM, funding and liquidity, and stress testing?
Are our FTP model and liquidity management assumptions sound?
How do we establish liquidity and FTP best practices?
Does our FTP model incorporate the right drivers and meet the relevant regulatory requirements?
Is our FTP model implemented and calibrated correctly?
Do our behavioral models produce meaningful results?
Trusted Expertise
Moodys Analytics is widely recognized for delivering high-quality analytics to the marketplace, developed both for standard use as well as
on a custom basis. Our breadth of industry and client experience has given our practitioners a strong understanding of the challenges our
clients face when building, benchmarking, and validating models that can withstand the scrutiny of regulators and internal and external
stakeholders.
Scenario Analyzer coordinates the stress testing process across the enterprise, centralizing a wide range of Moodys Analytics, third-party
and proprietary models and data.
The RiskAuthority solution delivers comprehensive regulatory capital and liquidity calculation and management for Basel I, II and III.
Regulatory Reporting Module creates, validates and submits regulatory reports for over 50 countries and over 3000 reports.
The RiskFrontier software is the credit portfolio risk management and economic capital solution trusted by leading financial
institutions worldwide.
The RiskOrigins software is a risk-focused, workflow-driven software platform that allows commercial lenders to streamline and
standardize their underwriting process for commercial credit facilities.
The RiskAnalyst software gives you a comprehensive and consistent view of your firms counter-party risk by combining financial
spreading, credit analysis and robust data storage using one flexible, secure enterprise platform.
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