1. Risk advisory Services
Credit
A critical area within any firm, who is responsible for the firm's capital
management and risk monitoring?
Our teams act as advisors to senior management on essential areas such as controlling the firm's global risk
exposure and the profitability and structure of your various businesses.
These responsibilities are fulfilled by:
Tracking and analyzing the firm’s capital flows
Managing the firm’s relationship with external regulators
Preparation of the firm’s statutory financial information and statements in accordance with the applicable accounting
principles of each region
Working closely with all of the firm’s business areas
Measuring, analyzing and controlling the risk exposures of the firm
Credit risk management is responsible for advising how to protect the
firm's capital.
To do this, we determines risk appetite by analyzing the business and financial profile of each of Your counterparties
in the financial markets. We also act as a credit rating advisor for investment banking clients.
Credit Risk Management and Advisory
Understanding the credit quality of corporations, financial institutions and governments worldwide is an essential
aspect of any firm’s ability to protect its capital. The in-depth knowledge of your clients, markets and trading
products—and your resulting decisions on risk tolerance—are crucial to the firm.
We leverages our extensive expertise in financial, credit and risk analysis to provide astute and objective judgments
for our clients, in either a transactional or advisory capacity. Since Credit risk management department has been
structured to work closely with almost every client, its professionals gain diverse financial experience and a broad
perspective on how the firm functions as a whole. Our unique position keeps us at the forefront of the firm's strategic
developments, and the interaction with numerous clients and the diverse projects that ensue allow for a challenging,
varied and multi-dimensional work experience.
Responsibilities
Credit Risk Management advises how to:
Assess the credit and financial strength of the client’s trading counterparts to determine acceptable levels of credit
exposure
Analyze the risks inherent in the products in which our client trades, including increasingly complex transactions
Coordinate with the client’s Sales & Trading, Legal, Operations and Compliance departments to ensure appropriate
documentation, limits and risk mitigants to protect against a counterpart default and minimize potential losses
Monitor, manage and report exposures at a counterpart, product and portfolio level
Strategic and Ratings Advisory:
2. Evaluate the creditworthiness and likely debt ratings of corporations, financial institutions and sovereign governments
worldwide
Analyze the credit implications of various financial transactions including debt, equity and hybrid offerings, mergers
and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs (LBOs), restructuring and share repurchases
Communicate analysis to prospective issuers
Advise Investment Banking clients in approaching the credit rating agencies to obtain, maintain or improve ratings
- Work directly with clients to help determine optimal capital structures for various transactions
- Provide insight into anticipated rating agency focal points, both qualitative and quantitative
- Work closely with clients to prepare written and verbal presentations for initial or update meetings
- Develop a rapport with rating agency analysts and advocate and negotiate on behalf of our issuing clients
Portfolio management and Special Assets advisory, it help to bridge the firm's origination, advisory, sales and
trading, and credit risk considerations. Special Assets advisory is responsible for the workouts and restructurings of
leverage loans, and equity positions. Its primary responsibilities include:
Portfolio management and credit analysis
Posting internal and external clients on borrower performance/developments
Structuring and executing amendments, waivers and refinancing for portfolio credits
Supporting other client service initiatives with portfolio
The Operational Risk management advisory works closely with the
client’s business leaders to provide thought leadership around risk
management with the goal of aligning the overall risk profile of the firm
with its risk appetite.
This presents unique opportunities to interact with many businesses, which allows for a diverse financial experience
and broad perspective on how the firm functions as a whole.
The Operational Risk Management discipline includes such activities as risk analytics, scenario analyses and capital
calculations to determine an efficient and risk-sensitive capital amount for risk management and decision-making
purposes. The analysis and reporting of firmwide operational risk events, trends and capital exposure information are
presented to senior management and the various governing bodies of the client.
Team members are responsible for participating in activities and projects to support the implementation of operational
risk management throughout the client. Effective coordination with other risk professionals, risk departments,
technology and business managers will be critical for success on this team.
As an Operational Risk team, we will:
Participate in a business relationship management team covering specific business lines or enterprise areas. In this
capacity, we will be responsible for maintaining a close relationship with and deep understanding of your assigned
business/enterprise functions in order to identify business developments that could potentially impact its operational
risk profile
Assist in the evaluation/assessment of internal losses as well as trending analysis of industry peers
Interact with other risk/control disciplines, including the Management Controls department, to share and evaluate
information for a thorough assessment of the overall business environmental and internal control factors of the
business lines
Develop knowledge of the operational risk regulatory requirements as outlined through various regulatory agencies
Participate in the scenario analysis process with the client’s senior business leaders in determining data elements to
directly support a capital determination process
Participate in operational risk industry events
Perform operational risk due diligence on new products
3. Market Risk Management & Analysis advises and measures, how to
analyze and controls the market risk of the client.
Our responsibilities include:
Playing a key role in the risk/reward decision making process
Measuring the losses that the client would experience under a variety of normal and extreme market conditions,
across asset classes
Verifying and approving pricing models
Advising on the modeling of complex trades
Reporting market risk information to external bodies
Participating in evaluating and introducing new products and business
Market Risk Analysis is responsible for measuring, analyzing and reporting market risk, including monitoring
adherence to limits. Varieties of quantitative measures are used, including Value at Risk (VaR) and stress tests.
Much focus is given to liquidity and risk concentration.
This team check client's daily trading activities and looks at all businesses and asset classes across the firm.
Market Risk Strategies is responsible for designing and implementing market risk measurement models as well as
approving pricing models used by the client. This comprised: Risk Modeling and Hedging Analysis. Risk Modeling
designs and implements all risk models for your trading portfolio, including VaR models, stress testing and hedging
analysis advises client how to hedge the particular exposure
Corporate Risk is responsible for calculating, monitoring and reporting our market risk capital to regulators. By
attributing risk capital to individual trading businesses, it also plays a direct role in the strategic risk/reward decision-
making process.
Liquidity Risk and Treasury Management advisory
We advise our clients how to manage thier liquidity, funding, and capital. Our goal is to ensure that our client’s
remains liquid and well-capitalized, even throughout the most difficult market environments. Our primary objectives is
advising how to:
• Determine the appropriate funding strategy for assets based upon their liquidation profile
• Maintain an appropriate level of excess liquidity
• Raise funding across diverse markets, investors, and products; and,
• Hold adequate capital to protect against risk of loss and to meet regulatory requirements
Below is a brief description of some of our advisory functions:
Liquidity Risk Management
• Model potential liquidity outflows and funding requirements at a business level
• Build tools to better understand changes in excess liquidity over time
• Analyze new business initiatives and products to assess their liquidity risks and funding requirements
Funding
• Structure debt and equity issuances
• Allocate balance sheet capacity across firm businesses
• Determine the allocation of funding costs to business lines
• Develop and monitor metrics to assess funding capacity and risk
Capital Management
• Optimize the level and composition of the firm’s capital base relative to its risk profile
• Ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory capital rules and standards
• Manage the firm’s share repurchase program and dividend policy
4. Corporate Tax Advisory services
The Corporate Tax teams work to ensure that our client’s complies
with the tax laws of the countries in which they do business.
We advise the firm’s on the tax implications of transactions for the firm and of new products in development; tax
planning for the firm and its partners; tax compliance work for the firm’s partners and business entities; and assisting
the Human Capital Management department in handling tax-related matters for their employees.
Our Corporate Tax professionals:
Provide tax information for the firm’s financial statements
Minimize the firm’s effective tax rate
Prepare/supervise the preparation of statutory tax returns
Provide tax advice to the firm's business and support units