Traded Market Risk

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) & Value at Risk (VaR) market risk management solution.

Future proof your market risk capabilities with our multi award winning Traded Market Risk management solution.
Extend full revaluation of value at risk & stress testing into FRTB compliance with full support for the standard approach (SA) & internal model approach (IMA).

As the deadline for compliance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) approaches, firms are still struggling to deal with the complexity of the guidelines. Traded Market Risk from S&P Global supports compliance with the Basel market risk requirements by providing a hosted service that combines our market-leading data with cutting-edge analytics. Supported by our team of trusted subject matter experts, we can help you reduce the impact, cost and complexity of FRTB projects.

What can you expect from our solution?

Comprehensive VaR & ES calculation across all asset classes and trade types
Supports Monte Carlo and Historical VaR with full revaluation of the portfolio
Sensitivity analysis and Stress Testing configured through a highly intuitive interface
Supports regulatory and market risk requirements
Available on the cloud, deployed or as-a-service

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Traded Market Risk Solution Future proof your market risk capabilities

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Case study: Read how IMA banks accelerated their FRTB deliverables with Traded Market Risk from S&P Global.

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Benefits of our Traded Market Risk solution

Compliance for SA and IMA

Improve capital management and visibility for compliance with global and regional regulatory requirements

Trusted Data, Analytics and Expertise

Gain unique insights with our curated data and analytics combined with your internal or third-party data

Cloud compatible across major providers

Pay only for what you use with technology built to scale up or scale down depending on your needs

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Leverage our platform’s turnkey capabilities and project acceleration track-record without sacrificing flexibility

Empower and accelerate decisions

Access calculation capabilities to assess the capital impact of new trades, model assumptions or changing market conditions on the fly.

FRTB

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) will change market risk management in January 2023. Does your in-house team have the expertise to implement FRTB regulations?

FRTB requires banks to revisit their market risk exposure. Our Traded Market Risk FRTB solutions allow you to manage exposure and resulting market risk capital requirements more effectively for both Internal Model Approach (IMA) and Standard Approach (SA).

Learn more about our Internal Model Approach (IMA) and Standard Approach (SA) solutions.

Standardized Approach

FRTB – Standardized Approach

Are you ready for the FRTB Standardized Approach?

Can your current systems handle the prescribed sensitivity and curvature calculations?

Does your in-house team have the expertise to interpret the FRTB regulations?

Fast track your regulatory compliance with our FRTB-SA service. Provide your trading book portfolio and we’ll do the rest. Our service provides you with fast performance as calculations are performed on our multi-asset risk engine fueled by our best-in-class market data. You can easily view the results that are available in a secure web UI.

Our solution helps reduce the total cost of ownership of your FRTB infrastructure and shorten time to delivery while maintaining complete control and auditability. The software is available on the cloud, deployed or as-a-service to suit your specific needs. You will also receive support from our team of financial experts.

IMA Solution

FRTB – IMA solution

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) requires banks to revisit their market risk exposure including new eligibility tests for risk factors used in the Internal Model Approach (IMA) capital requirements.

Use our multi-asset risk engine fueled by our best-in-class data to run calculations at scale and view the results in a secure web UI. This includes new risk factor liquidity test for eligibility under more demanding Internal Model Approach (IMA) capital requirements.

Our Traded Market Risk FRTB IMA Solution allows you to reduce the total cost of ownership of your FRTB infrastructure and shorten time to delivery. You can also gain visibility on the capital impact of new trades, model assumptions and changing market conditions.

Effectively manage exposure and resulting market risk capital requirements with our award-winning solution. You will have support from our team of financial experts.

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What is FRTB?

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) refers to a comprehensive restructuring of market risk regulatory capital requirements published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) between 2016 and 2019 in response to the financial crises.

After a few iterations since 2016, BCBS published the final version of the framework in January 2019, and local regulators are starting to release their final translation of FRTB into local law.

With FRTB, banks will have to comply with new rules by 1 January 2023, but a lot of retro planning, implementation and model validation work as well as regulatory approval is required in order to publish official capital numbers by this date.

Banks operating trading books will have to confirm to their respective supervisory authorities whether they wish to pursue a Standardized Approach (SA) calculation or obtain approval for an Internal Model Approach (IMA) for each desk in scope.

What is the difference between FRTB and previous regulations?

FRTB introduces a number of changes for market risk capital requirements including stricter boundaries between the bank’s Trading and Banking Book allocations (i.e. for active trading vs. held to maturity) and fewer possibilities to move trades between them.

Instead of a top-of-the-house model approval, banks will have to seek approval at the level of each Regulatory Trading Desk as well as calculating consolidated capital requirements either under the Standardized Approach (SA) or the Internal Model Approach (IMA).

Risk Factors to be included in IMA calculations will need to be evidenced as derived from sufficiently observable or liquid instruments (thereby becoming “modellable”), else banks will have to calculate a Stressed Expected Shortfall (SES) add-on for them instead.

The IMA framework also switches from the usual Value at Risk (VaR) metric to an Expected Shortfall-based risk measure based on the risk type and associated liquidity horizon.

In addition, eligible desks will need to demonstrate they pass not only back testing requirements but also a Profit & Loss (P&L) Attribution test designed to reduce any gaps between front-office and risk models which will often increase risk factor granularity compared to existing VaR models.

Failing these criteria, desks will have to fall back to the new Standardized Approach which although still based on close-ended sensitivity-based calculations, still increases in complexity and requires implementation changes.

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Traded Market Risk

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) & Value at Risk (VaR) market risk management solution.

Benefits of our Traded Market Risk solution

FRTB

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)

Standardized Approach

FRTB – Standardized Approach

IMA Solution

FRTB – IMA solution

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