Area of focus

Financial institutions are managing unprecedented levels of change in response to new regulation, business pressures and the demands of different stakeholders. These challenges are often complex, and require cooperation of numerous parts of an organization.

We assemble highly skilled, multi-disciplinary teams to help you. We also know that you need a tailored service as much as a consistent methodology; we work to give you the benefit of our extensive industry experience, our subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide.

Our Financial Services Advisory services team is organized in three main segments:

Credit risk

We are ready to provide you with services that cover all areas of credit risk management from the client’s application for the loan to its write-off. Based on our experience we focus on the following areas:

  • Governance and processes
  • Loan application and approval process
  • Model development and validation
    • Application and behavioral scoring/rating
    • PD, LGD and CCF models
    • Loan impairment models
    • Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment (CVA/DVA/FVA)
  • Collections
  • Stress testing
  • Regulatory compliance

Market risk and financial management

In the field of market risk and financial management we have extensive experience and we will be glad to help you in the following areas:

  • Asset and liability management
  • Liquidity management
  • Funds transfer pricing
  • Bonds and derivatives valuations
  • Product profitability
  • Business planning
  • Scenario analysis
  • Stress testing
  • VaR and CFaR modelling
  • Hedge accounting

Operational risk

We combine leading banking practice experience with regulatory requirements to improve operational risk measurement and management methods.

  • Operational risk management strategy and framework
  • Improvement of data collection and management
  • Risk and controls self-assessment
  • Operational risk measurement
    • Development and validation of AMA model
  • Reporting

Our services

At EY FSA team we recognize the need to bring multi-disciplinary skills to address the range of issues our clients face in dealing with complex risk management issues in a practical way. This has become particularly pressing with the speed and extent of changes in regulatory requirements and increasing competition on the market.

Our team has extensive experience in banking industry and uses proven, integrated methodologies to help you solve your most challenging business problems, deliver a strong performance in complex market conditions and make improvements sustainable in the long term. We understand that you need services that are adapted to your environment, so we bring our broad sector experience and deep subject-matter knowledge to bear in a proactive and objective way.

We are ready to assist you across the whole model development life cycle covering development, testing, calibration, training, knowledge transfer, ongoing maintenance and independent performance reporting.

Model governance

  • Review of processes
  • Set up of model governance and roles
  • Input data reliability/validity check
  • Use test

Model development and validation

  • Model design
  • Model validation
  • Model monitoring
  • Management reporting

IT and implementation support

  • Proprietary solutions covering all risk areas
    • Model validation tool
    • PD and LGD estimation tools
    • Loan impairment calculator (LIC)
    • Finance and risk integrated solution (FARIS)
    • Deposits characterization tool
    • Operational risk data collection tool (ORDaC)

Training and methodological support

  • Intensive on-site training/workshops
  • On-site and off-site methodological support
  • Model documentation review and preparation
  • Internal audit support