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Update of a recovery plan : Implementation and submission package

In order to complete the annual update of the recovery plan, the client has requested Avantage Reply to lead and steer the overall process to adress ECB recommendations and refresh the bank’s recovery scenarios, indicators and options.

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ECB's OSI CREDIT RISK Remediation plan design and implementation

In order to actively work on the remediation of ECB recommendations resulting from an OSI on Credit risk management, the client has requested Avantage Reply to set up an independant analysis of all the recommendations, to define a remediation action plan and to steer and follow its implementation.

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Reshaping of the IRRBB risk measurement framework

Avantage Reply was engaged to support this client with improving its IRRBB measurement framework in line with regulatory and internal expectations.

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Internal capital adequacy; assessment process (ICAAP) Design and Implementation

Through an extensive experience in SSM ECB SREP, Avantage Reply was engaged to lead and design the first ICAAP framework and its key components. It was mandated to define and implement the governance framework but also to provide subject matter support on risk models and capital management issues.

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Internal Stress Tests : Governance framework and P&L modeling

In line whit the annual internal stress test exercice, the client requested Avantage Reply to provide subjet matter expert to model P&L components and ensure the proper implementation and steering of the governance framework.

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Leverage ratio: Budget forecast and modelling

The client was seeking to develop a projected leverage ratio in line with budget assumptions and forecasts in order to strenghten its capital management steering. Avantage Reply assisted the client to design and implement a simple model and associated tool to project the Leverage ratio under different scenarios.

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Crisis Recovery Plan

In order to exercise the annual update of the Crisis Recovery Plan of the subsidiary of a large French bank and improve the coherence with the Group’s guide, the client has requested Avantage Reply to update and reinforce their Crisis Recovery Plan report with the focus on the Governance, Business activity analysis, the coherence with Contingency funding plan and the Group’s guide.

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Risk Appetite Framework Reshaping and integration into budget processing

As part of the annual review of the Risk Appetite Framework, the clients decided to reshape and redesign its framework to better integrate it with other internal processes such as the strategic plan, the budget process and the ICAAP.

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Regulatory Reporting Support

The bank needs the assistance to Luxembourg Regulatory Reporting team in reviewing the statistical reporting procedures, namely S-b-S (Titre Par Titre), SEPA (PS), BOP (Balance of payment) and BoP statec, and training the new resources arriving from a newly acquired company on these reports.

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IRRBB Methodological support and strengthen the operational process efficiency

Avantage Reply was requested to assist the client in reviewing and strengthening the IRRBB framework in terms of both methodological support and operational process efficiency to comply with the Group’s standards in the computation of NPVaR and NIIaR metrics.

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EMR Gap Analysis FINREP, COREP, LEVREP

Under its Regulatory Reporting Remediation Programme (RE³), the client was reviewing the Governance of the production process of the Financial Reporting (FINREP), Common Solvency Ratio Reporting (COREP) and Leverage Ratio Reporting (LEVREP). The Bank mandated Avantage Reply to provide a benchmark of the production process of its regulatory reporting in the Bank against the Group process through a Gap Analysis.

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ILAAP Design and implementation

In order to improve institutions’ ILAAP framework, the client has requested Avantage Reply to reshape and reinforce their ILAAP report with the focus on improving the governance, completing the report with the part of risk identification and initiating an internal liquidity stress testing framework.

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Data Governance Assessment

The client is a European Private Bank with Wealth Management operations. In the context of the expected transition to direct supervision of the ECB (European Central Bank), the client has requested Avantage Reply to assist in undertaking an assessment of its Data Governance Framework and Data Quality to provide the bank with a set of practical recommendations to ensure that the bank can satisfy the requirements of the ECB in light of BCBS 239 (The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting).

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Outsourcing Policy Update to align with new EBA and local requirements

Avantage Reply assisted a Private Banking group in the Eurozone to review of group Outsourcing policy. In light of changing European and national regulatory requirements that came into force in 2019, our client revised the internal processes and procedures regarding the management and oversight of both, intra-group and third-party outsourcing activities.

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KPI and Dashboard definition advisor

The Client is the Insurance arm of an international banking group. The client needed expertise to define Key Performance Indicators and design Performance Dashboards regarding all operations. Avantage Repy provided Finance and Strategy skills to understand and execute the client’s needs.

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New definition of default

Avantage Reply was asked to assist the client, a European D-SIB, in conducting an impact analysis on the application of the new requirements. Avantage Reply successfully implemented a custom SAS-based solution to evaluate the gaps between the current and the new definition.

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ECB’s forward-looking regulatory requirements and expectations

Avantage Reply assisted one of the largest banks in Luxembourg, in continuing to address the European Central Bank’s (ECB) supervisory expectations in an effective and proactive manner. Avantage Reply’s added value relied on a benchmarking analysis against peer firms in Eurozone, enabling the bank to better understand the forward-looking regulatory requirements that the Bank should comply with.

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BACKTESTING LOSS GIVEN DEFAULT MODELS

Avantage Reply supported a large European bank based in Luxembourg in automating the back-testing of their retail models. The bank had a manual and tedious process, which required a lot of manual manipulations. Avantage Reply automated the whole process using Python thus saving the bank important resources and improving the overall test procedures and back-testing guidelines.

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Validation of an Interest Rate Model

The client, a major European financial institution, requested the assistance of Avantage Reply in the review and validation of the Negative Interest Rates Model. This model estimates the potential losses of interest rate variability and supports negative interest rates.

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Maintenance & user assistance of a regulatory credit risk database

The client is a European Investment Bank with global operations. Its expertise covers Corporate & Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management, and Specialised Financial Services. The client requested Avantage Reply to relocate its database system for CoREP computation to another European country and maintain it for several years.

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CFO Assistance

The client, a G-SIB specialised in Private Banking and Asset Management, Trade Finance and Corporate Banking, needed support to produce their BASEL III regulatory reporting in line with EBA ITSs.