Risk Model Development and Risk Analytics

We were engaged as the lead consulting firm in a long-term program to renew and seek approval for a modern, cross asset class, post-crisis suite of CCR IMM models. The resulting models have been submitted and gained regulatory approval in multiple EU and non-EU regulatory regimes. The overall program of work involved research, development (including prototyping), documentation and submission assistance for a comprehensive suite of models. The work was done to the SR 11-7 standard mandated by the Federal Reserve bank. The regulatory submissions have been successful in multiple regulatory regimes.

We developed and implemented upgrades to the productive risk library of the bank in order to ensure readiness for IBOR transition. This project focused on necessary conceptual changes in the core rates simulation engine, upgrades in the trade representation language replacing IBOR with the new benchmarks as well as the adaption of the risk driver extractor to extract the new benchmarks and their use as explanatory variables in the American Monte Carlo engine. The team also successfully upgraded and expanded the calculation of interest rate shocks to the portfolio. Our role included conceptual work, implementation, testing and documentation.

We were engaged to implement a pricing and risk engine that could compute key numbers for the reporting and risk management of IFRS numbers for the finance and front office departments of the German Bank. We introduced the Open Risk Engine (ORE) covering the entire spectrum of financial instruments of the bank (deposits, loans, money market, bond and derivative trades) to compute current IFRS margins for all positions and risk numbers that allowed the bank to manage its overall IFRS income.