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Almost all deposit-taking institutions, such as, banks and credit unions face one common risk, tenor mismatch, that changes in severity as the rates change. With increased volatility in rates, tenor mismatch can transform into basis risk, which can cause a liquidity event with potential to trigger bank failures. Even global systemically important banks have become vulnerable to interest rate volatility as was evidenced by doomed Credit Suisse. Increased interest rate volatility requires an overhaul of assumptions and calibrations of ALM systems. For instance, the assumption that term structure is flat or moves up or down in parallel movements is no longer relevant. According to a recent study by BBA, most ALM systems are underestimating the severity of tenor mismatch.
Today, banks need a partner who understands the importance of deposits, immunizes the balance sheet from interest rate volatility and mitigates the impact on business. Whilst the industry faces shrinking interest margins, our clients can be assured of accuracy in rates based on advanced estimation techniques. BankingBook’s proprietary asset liability management software solution, BB-ALM™, uses Machine Learning algorithm to slice and dice the deposits into core, volatile and interest sensitive cohorts, explaining more than 90% of the dynamic changes in the term structure of benchmark rates using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). It also sets up Treasury function as a profit center that frees up managers to add earnings performance.
BB-ALM™ is a powerful combination of 5 strategic models, covering Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Asset and Liability Management, Strategic CECL/IFRS 9, Capital Stress Testing and Lifetime Income. BB-ALM™ provides coverage of the following risks:

BB-ALM™’s use of a single data source, offers two distinct advantages. Firstly, it reduces operating cost by cutting the expense of maintaining multiple large data clusters. For example, 10TB of data, a 200-node cluster costs almost $30,000 per month. Imagine running multiple clusters that consume same data but generate different reports. With BB-ALM, this cost is reduced at least by 4x as we use a single data source to produce the reports required by ALCO, risk and management committees. This also has an impact on FTE spend. Secondly, due to integrated reporting of 5-in-1 models, BB-ALM™ removes silos. Organizational corporate structures at banks are dominated, even inadvertently, by functional silos. Each of these functions own a different set of data and processing mandates. Since data processing is often done in a sequential order, any changes identified at one silo triggers reprocessing at another - inefficient, ineffective and hazardous to overall performance.
Collecting and reporting data is time consuming with time lags often in excess of 1 month. This delay in performance reporting and issue identification creates a significant source of surprise with missed opportunities to minimize losses and maximize profits.
Featuring high-speed cloud computing and a dashboard that provides a snapshot at 10,000 feet and drill down capability of discrete loan performance within the portfolios, BB-ALM™ allows CEOs and function heads to quickly identify and execute on tactics that enhance the loan book’s performance and promoting high performance across verticals. BB-ALM™’s integrated reporting facilitates on-going assessment and optimization of your strategy and plan, enabling you to continuously assess the impact of stressors on your funding strategy, contingency funding plan and key performance metrics and ratios, mitigating your liquidity planning processes.
No more potential for gaming of the system and reporting delays:

FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS
Scenario Planning
Current and projected Macroeconomic scenarios and growth planning for balance sheet and income statement
Current and projected financial positions
Current and projected balance sheet and income statement
Resilience Dashboard
Vulnerability assessment, mitigation and resilience planning based on qualitative scenarios and non-financial risks
ASSET LIABILITY MANAGEMENT
Funds Transfer Pricing
Term structure of multi-currency cost of funds, spot and par rates as well
as any addon charges or credit required by the institution (i.e., credit default swaps and liquidity premiums)
Static ALM
Repricing and liquidity gap reports
Dynamic ALM
Mark-to-market analysis of balance sheet, Economic Value of Equity and Interest Income at Risk
Stress testing
Stress testing using parallel and non-parallel shifts in the benchmark rate curve
Market risk
Volatility based analysis of forex and banking book investments
Deposit modelling
Determination of core, volatile and rate sensitive deposits and stress testing based on changes in economic conditions
Advanced Liquidity Risk
Basel III ratios e.g., LCR, NSFR and NCCF and prepayment risk
STRATEGIC CECL/IFRS 9 & LOAN BOOK STRESS TESTING
Capital Planning
Macroeconomic scenarios (upside, base and stress) and multifactor parametric analysis applied to determine credit and concentration risks capitalization and associated cost of capital
IFRS 9/CECL
Macroeconomic scenarios (upside, base and stress) based Expected Credit Loss in compliance with IFRS 9 and CECL
LIFETIME INCOME ANALYSIS
Portfolio Profitability
Granular lifetime income analysis of the loan book using yield, cost of funds, Expected Credit Losses and cost of capital
PRODUCT RESOURCES
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