Ambit Risk Institute Services

With a combination of experienced banking professionals and proven, innovative technology, SunGard’s Ambit Risk Institute (ARI) provides advisory services to a wide range of financial institutions, helping them manage risk and performance, and achieve regulatory compliance. Addressing the key issues facing banks today, ARI’s services focus on six specific areas that enable banks to:

MAKE SOUND RISK DECISIONS

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ARI will work with executive managers to both determine a bank’s risk appetite and communicate it across the bank. Above all, that means using a defined approach to considering risk, to drive, shape and cement the day-to-day business decisions and activities of individual business units. To promote a fair and transparent risk culture, ARI can also help banks set levels of incentive compensation that are consistently in line with their appetite for risk.
Read our report Should Your Risk Appetite Go Up or Down? pdf_smallicon

OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE, PROFITABILITY AND PRICING

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By identifying a bank’s strongest and weakest lending relationships according to their lifetime risk-adjusted return on capital, ARI can help improve balance-sheet performance, profitability and the potential for growth. The appropriate pricing of products and loans is an important way for banks to improve or re-establish relationships with customers – and increase competitiveness. ARI provides banks with an objective framework for pricing that will help achieve the necessary balance between returns, risk and growth.
Download our case study Improving Risk - Adjusted Profitability & Loan Pricing at a $100BN US Institution pdf_smallicon

MEET REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS

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Banks, by their nature, are highly leveraged businesses – but it takes specialist expertise to determine the right amount of capital needed to maintain solvency in times of crisis. Stress testing is a key way to do just that, and ARI’s expert team can help banks develop meaningful and workable stress tests – and comply with the ever-increasing range of financial regulations and accounting standards that relate to capital and risk.  
Discover more in our white paper Liquidity Risk - More than a Reporting Exercise pdf_smallicon

IMPROVE LENDING DECISIONS

 ImproveLending   With extensive expertise in the area of loss forecasting and risk rating – the cornerstone of every credit application – ARI is able to pick up on specific areas of risk in a bank’s portfolio and predict the likelihood of actual losses. It also offers multiple approaches to the complex issues of calculating reserves for loan losses and capital adequacy.

Read our article Stress Testing - Going Beyond the Risk Management Comfort Zone pdf_smallicon
   

 BETTER MANAGE CAPITAL

 BetterManageCapital   SunGard’s Ambit Risk Institute helps banks not only set adequate levels, but also manage their capital and risk-adjusted return on an ongoing basis, with strategic advice on how to maintain solvency while improving shareholder value.

Download our article Bank Concentration Risk - Beyond the Limit? pdf_smallicon
     

 DEVELOP A ROBUST VALIDATION FRAMEWORK FOR RISK MODELS

 DevelopRobustValidation   The financial crisis revealed the failings of the mathematical models that banks had come to rely on – and, above all, the need for more rigorous, independent ways to validate them. ARI can provide a robust validation framework that ensures risk models meet a range of regulator-mandated and best practice criteria.
Learn more in the article Pointing the Finger pdf_smallicon

 

 

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