Data Management
Establishing clear governance and processes around data sourcing and cleansing that support the model is critical, whether it be internal, market or macroeconomic data. The factor inputs used in the field to impact credit rating are provided to the model development team so they can calibrate the model manually – and in many cases in an ad-hoc fashion. Therefore, an area of regulatory focus is on the agility of risk rating systems. Regulators will analyze how quickly feedback can be delivered to the model development team so that information can be used to refine the model in a timely manner. In order to effectively manage data, the credit risk rating platform and model execution team play an important role.
ACTICO Credit Risk Rating Platform
ACTICO’s Credit Risk Rating Platform is a robust and scalable solution for the implementation and deployment of internal rating models. With a single, central platform, multiple rating models of any level of complexity can be mapped with ease.
Comprehensive and modular: It supports a wide range of operational credit risk management processes (e.g., financial spreading, risk rating and processing early warning signals) as well as analytical ones (e.g., reporting, simulation, stress testing). The platform’s modules can be used as standalone applications or as a comprehensive integrated solution.
Centralized, standardized and consistent: Banks using the Credit Risk Rating Platform can implement any type and number of rule models – particularly risk rating models – on a central platform. This includes scoring/rating models for evaluating the creditworthiness of borrowers (probability of default), loss given default and models for risk-sensitive pricing.
Flexibility: The platform can be fully adapted to each customer’s requirements. The configuration is performed using a graphical administration platform, so model administrators are free to design and expand scoring/rating models, user interfaces, workflows, data models, authorization concepts and report templates without any programming.
Powerful simulation capability: The Credit Risk Rating Platform contains a built-in processing engine for running simulations, which makes it possible to perform the operational and analytical risk management on a central platform. The application can simulate changes to a rating model before it goes live as well as changed (“stressed”) risk factors of an internal rating model.
Seamless integration: Existing systems can access the Credit Risk Rating Platform via a standard interface (web services).
This means: third-party applications (e.g., core banking systems, loan origination systems) can initiate risk rating processes and receive results; all internal and external data sources can be connected for importing data, and standard interfaces can be provided to numerous external data suppliers (e.g., credit bureaus, rating agencies, market data providers).
Full audit trail: The platform ensures maximum auditability for model administration as well as during the operational execution of processes (e.g., ratings, financial spreading).