We help banks to design, implement and validate quantitative models to better identify and monitor risks arising from trading book activities. Our modeling experts support banks in satisfying regulatory requirements, building best-in-class internal models and developing analytics to ensure risks can be easily managed.
Our experience covers the full spectrum of traded risk modeling, including Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, XVA and Margin Models.
When markets change at unprecedented speeds, gains and losses in your trading book can have a significant impact on financial fitness. Zanders’ approach to risk combines sophisticated data science with regulatory knowledge and market experience. In short, you can rely on us to bring a sense of balance and pragmaticism to how you manage risks emerging from adverse market fluctuations.
We assist clients in developing new models or enhancing existing models to capture additional risks, reach regulatory requirements or to run more accurately and efficiently.
Our consultants support the implementation and testing of new models, usually within the bank’s existing architecture, from prototyping all the way to production.
Our teams write clear and well-structured technical model documentation to ensure models are unambiguous and well understood throughout the bank.
Our experienced teams assist in efficiently liaising between model developers and model validators to reduce the time and effort required to onboard new models.
We support banks in validating models, both independently and alongside internal validation teams, which brings external experience and accelerates the model validation phase.
We develop and implement analytics on top of existing risk architecture to improve the dissemination of information across the bank and allow easier analysis and assessment of risks.
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Challenges with backtesting Expected Shortfall Recent regulations are increasingly moving toward the use of Expected Shortfall (ES) as a measure to capture risk. Although ES fixes many
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The EBA has recently published the findings and observations from their TRIM on-site inspections. A significant number of deficiencies were identified and are required to be remediated by
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Regulatory Landscape Despite a delay of one year, many banks are struggling to be ready for FRTB in January 2023. Alongside the FRTB timeline, banks are also preparing for other
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In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Zanders has acquired Fintegral.
In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Zanders has acquired Optimum Prime.
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