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Risk Support

Avantage Reply provided support to the Risk department of a custodian bank that operates at an international level. The goal was to help with the completion of the department’s daily tasks and any upcoming projects

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Risk Management Support

The client began a project to switch to a new core banking system and aimed to complete this transition quickly with minimal impact on their daily processes and duties.

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Internal Audit of the Recovery Plan

The client, an independent and privately-owned banking group which provides private banking services, wanted an external expert to support their internal audit team. In particular, the client wanted to review and provide assurance that their Group Recovery Plan is in line with the latest regulatory requirements and best market practices.

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Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk

The client, a major banking group offering a broad range of financial products and services such as bilateral loans, trade financing and derivative products to corporate and institutional clients, required assistance with calculating the capital requirements for counterparty credit risk under the new standardized approach.

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Compliance Support

Avantage Reply supported the Compliance department of an internationally operating Private Bank / Financial Services Company in moving its European headquarters between countries. This involved PMO support, regulatory analysis and assessment of the Bank’s Compliance functions across several locations in the Eurozone, the UK and other European countries.

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Recovery Planning under ECB supervision

The client, an ECB-supervised bank, is required to maintain and update their Recovery Plan regularly. In this context, the client requested the assistance of Avantage Reply, to assist the bank in the production of its Group Recovery Plan.

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Enhancement of the Group’s ICAAP Framework

Avantage Reply undertook a project to assist an international banking group in enhancing its Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) framework in alignment with best banking practices.

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ICAAP/ILAAP Reports Update and Enhancement

Avantage Reply assisted a client with their objective to produce two regulatory reports namely the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (‘ICAAP’) and the Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (‘ILAAP’).

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Regulatory Reporting Support

In the context of transferring banking activities to another partner, the bank (the client) must comply with European banking authority (EBA) reporting requirements. The bank is required to produce regulatory reporting on a monthly and quarterly basis (i.e., COREP, FINREP etc.) Avantage Reply was engaged to provide support and expertise to generate regulatory reporting.

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ILAAP Internal Audit Support

Avantage Reply assisted the internal audit department of a leading private bank in the Eurozone, a less significant institution (LSI) that is part of an international group.

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Support to Risk Management: Risk monitoring tool migration

The client is a large multinational asset management company. The customer needed assistance on the migration of its risk monitoring tool (from RiskMetrics to Aladdin Risk). Avantage Reply supported the client on the risk monitoring tool migration as Project Manager, leveraging on industry knowledge and internal know-how.

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Liquidity & Interest Rate Risk Assessment on Complex Financing Structures

Avantage Reply assisted a well-known universal bank in the Eurozone to analyze, assess and document the potential liquidity and interest rate risks related to complex financing structures. The tailor-made financing solutions are important for more sophisticated clients, mostly corporations with precise financial needs, and aim at financing them via term loans, leasing, liquidity raising, securitization or short-term investments.

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National Central Bank Reporting Support

Avantage Reply assisted the finance department of a well-known bank in updating its process to produce monthly and quarterly statistical reporting for the Nation’s Central Bank, following the publication of the updated guidelines. This guideline modifies the statistical reporting requirements for credit institutions

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Recovery Plan Update

The client, a subsidiary of a leading bank, is required to maintain and update their Recovery Plan on the regular basis. Given internal resource limitations along with new requirements, the client required an assistance in the review and update of the plan. Avantage Reply provided a recovery plan expert who 1) updated the plan according to the latest regulatory requirements and 2) integrated the recommendations received from the internal audit function as well as the national regulator.

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Support with Credit Risk Regulatory Inspection

The client, a European-based leading bank in online financial services that offers state-of-the-art solutions to meet investment needs, required support from Avantage Reply on the preparation of a regulatory inspection for Credit risk and IT-related topics.

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Finance Function Support

Avantage Reply supported the Finance department of an internationally operating custodian bank in their daily and monthly production of internal and regulatory reports, as well as other routine activities. The client was handling a large project, the complexity of which had to be managed, while simultaneously completing all regularly occurring tasks to the highest possible standard without any disruption.

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Supporting daily ALM activity and reporting

Avantage Reply assisted a Finance department of a well-known private bank in daily activity and reporting production of the Assets and Liabilities Management team. The key tasks were assist the team in the improvement and preparation of the Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP), advise on the regulatory requirements and contribute to the implementation of local.

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Testing of liquidity regulatory reporting in light of the new BO system

Avantage Reply assisted a Finance department of a well-known private bank in the connectivity test phase within back office tool migration. The project covered a wide range of activities such as conducting multiple User Acceptance Tests (UAT) with on-shore teams, verify the impact of the change on regulatory reporting.

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Finance reporting support

Avantage Reply assisted a Finance department of a well-known private bank in daily and monthly reporting production related to liquidity. The key tasks were: produce and certify various regulatory reports, such as LCR, AMT, NSFR incl. contributions to group consolidated reports; produce and certify integral liquidity reports based on inputs from various business line.

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AnaCredit – Data remediation Activity

Avantage Reply assisted a Finance department of a well-known private bank in daily and monthly reporting production related to liquidity. The key tasks were: Produce and certify various regulatory reports, such as LCR, AMT, NSFR incl. contributions to group consolidated reports; produce and certify integral liquidity reports based on inputs from various business lines...

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Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) Transition

The regulatory classification of banking institutions, concerning their competent authority, is an important aspect that determines a lot about their regulatory obligations. Based on several criteria, a bank may be deemed significant.