Banking Risk Management
Banking risk management is a critical priority in challenging economic times.
The recent financial crisis has made risk management a significant priority for banking executives. As the result of the economic downturn, many banks found themselves in the surprising position of being overexposed to risk and unable to predict their liquidity vulnerabilities. Today, banking executives are under intense pressure to handle liquidity risk management more effectively and transparently. To remain competitive, banks must implement banking risk management strategies that enable them to perform rigorous stress testing and comply with different industry regulations while simultaneously minimizing the cost of managing risk. For banks seeking solutions to help manage this critical priority, Sungard can help.
Learn more about banking risk management products from Sungard.
Sungard’s Ambit delivers innovative solutions for banking risk management.
Sungard’s Ambit solution suite offers comprehensive banking solutions for retail, corporate and private banks. The Ambit Liquidity Risk Management solution provides proven banking risk management strategies and tools that enable banks to identify and simulate strategies that reduce exposure to risk while also minimizing costs. Ambit’s banking risk management solution includes:
• A prepackaged stress testing solution with a scenario engine that can accommodate the needs and management of current and future stress tests.
• Support for countermeasure activities (including the ability to measure their impact), such as selling off assets, unsecured and secured borrowing, lending strategies, freeze of product distribution, and more.
• Advanced reporting capabilities for management that include the ability to weave contingency planning into stress testing scenarios, and pre-defined extensible key risk indicators.
The benefits of the Ambit Liquidity Risk Management solution for banking organizations.
Using Ambit’s risk management software solution, banking officials can:
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Improve regulatory compliance. Ambit’s solution enables banks to satisfy regulatory requirements even as they grow in complexity, as well as public demand for information and transparency.
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Assess liquidity risk more accurately. Ambit’s liquidity risk solution enables banking executives to identify potential gaps in liquidity and make advance contingency plans, increasing preparedness, efficiency and profitability.
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Manage risk more transparently. With Ambit, banks can provide regulators with complete visibility of the balance sheet and fill liquidity holes before they become a crisis.
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Increase efficiency. By automating business process, Ambit helps to free internal resources to focus on improving profit margins and enhancing customer service.
Learn more now about banking risk management solutions from Sungard, as well as solutions for earnings at risk, credit risk assessment, and more.
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. Additional solutions help manage asset liquidity risk, provide tools for gauging return on equity capital, get an accurate view of return on risk capital (RORC), and help manage increasingly complex regulatory compliance standards.