Liquidity Risk Solution

To stay compliant banks require proven liquidity risk solution.

The recent financial crisis has shaken the easy access to liquidity that financial institutions enjoyed through the previous decade. Even the most conservative and highly regarded banks have found themselves overexposed to risk and without an effective way to measure liquidity vulnerabilities. In response to this predicament and to the intense scrutiny of regulators, many banks are seeking a liquidity risk solution that can both transparently demonstrate a solid approach to managing liquidity risk while also minimizing the costs of implementing those strategies. For many leading banks worldwide, the liquidity risk solution choice comes from Sungard’s Ambit.

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Sungard’s Ambit delivers a leading liquidity risk solution.

As a provider of innovative solutions to more than 800 customers in 70 countries – including 41 of the world’s top 50 banks – Sungard delivers a highly effective liquidity risk solution in Ambit Liquidity Risk Management. Featuring capabilities that help banks identify and simulate strategies to minimize the exposure to risk and the cost of liquidity risk, Ambit’s liquidity risk solution includes a prepackaged stress testing solution with a scenario engine that can handle the needs of current stress tests as well as future requirements. Ambit’s solution also provides support for countermeasure activities (such as selling off assets using different strategies, using standard facilities at a central bank, engaging in secured and unsecured borrowing) and measures the impact of each countermeasure. The solution offers advanced reporting capabilities that include a set of pre-defined and extensible key risk indicators, and provides cash flow simulation that can help bank officials identify and understand weaknesses in funding source concentrations.

Key benefits of Ambit’s solution for managing liquidity risk

Armed with Ambit’s liquidity risk solution, banks can:

  • Satisfy increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, as well as regulators’ need for greater transparency and visibility of the bank’s balance sheet.
  • Identify possible liquidity gaps and plan more effectively for various contingencies. 
  • Improve overall preparedness, increase efficiency and improve profitability.
  • Identify and fill holes in the balance sheet before they lead to a liquidity crisis.
  • Improve efficiency by automating certain business processes and freeing up time and resources that allow the bank to focus on improving performance through greater profitability and improved customer service.

Learn more now about Ambit’s liquidity risk solution as well as Sungard for credit risk management, earnings at risk, fund transfer pricing, RORAC analysis and other risk management solutions.

SunGard’s Ambit Risk & Performance Management solution provides banks with a suite of software to improve risk management for banking. An Ambit liquidity risk solution helps banks minimize the exposure to risk and the cost of liquidity risk. Ambit’s risk management solutions help banks to better manage risk-adjusted performance. Credit risk management solutions provide tools and intelligence for better lending decisions. Ambit Asset & Liability Management provide funds transfer pricing and solutions to help manage asset liquidity risk, as well as tools for gauging return on equity capital to get an accurate view of return on risk capital (RORC), and help manage increasingly complex regulatory compliance standards.