Fixed Income Data Organiser

A Regulatory Reporting Solution which saved £170 million in opportunity cost and boosted P&L by £11 million

Client

Investment Bank

Business Problem

The client, one of Europe’s largest banks, had a regulatory obligation to calculate and report the regulatory capital required for its securitisation holdings (such as Mortgage Backed Securities or MBS).

The manual process performed solely with spreadsheets took days, sometimes weeks, and was very error prone.

Solution Delivered

In collaboration with the Fixed Income Regulatory Capital team, we developed an automated, secure solution with full audit trail and regulatory report generation.

As the process required a lot of data, the solution started with a SQL Server database to process 8 Gb of data daily and perform the regulatory calculations.

  • The database processed 8 Gb of data daily from 40 sources.
  • An Excel Add-In was used to provide screens to view and edit the data (with audit trails) by about 80 users in UK and Europe.
  • The regulatory reports were fully automated (no manual intervention) plus reports & PivotTables for analysis.

The solution provided a clear and clean separation of business users' responsibilities to comply with regulatory requirements and automated the regulatory report generation process in hours rather than days or weeks.

Results

  • The process now took hours rather than days
  • The solution reduced the bank's RWA (Risk Weighted Assets) by some £170 million
  • The RWA reduction positively impacted the P&L by an estimated £11 million

Technology

Excel | VBA | C# | SQL Server | ExcelDNA


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