Basel II

BrainMatics’ Basel II solution is based on the following key elements:

Credit Risk

  • Segmentation (Pooling)
  • Solution incorporates Standardized and Model Based approaches
  • Risk engines for Application, Behavioral and Collections life stages of the retail customer
  • Risk MIS, a comprehensive MIS Suite for reporting
  • Including a proprietary way to model Corporate, SME and Agriculture risk

Market Risk

  • Solution incorporates Standardized and Model Based approaches
  • World’s most advanced VaR engine – BMVaR using “RiskVeda” – specifically designed for emerging markets such as India
  • Incorporates Non-Gaussian distributions and dynamic volatilities
  • Complete Market Risk platform including reporting engine

Operational Risk

  • Solution incorporates Basic Indicator Approach, Standardized Approach and Advanced Measurement Approach
  • Comprehensive operational risk framework design to work with sparse data availability
  • Includes RiskVeda assessment and readiness study
  • Identification of key indicators and risk factors
  • Operational policy design

Risk Calculators

  • BASEL II guidelines for co-relations are conservative for Risk aggregation which leads to a significant capital requirement
  • BrainMatics uses a proprietary way to models these correlations which can relate to “lower” capital requirement using dynamic copulas to model changing distributions
  • Proprietary Risk Aggregators for computing economic capital for the Bank (credit market and operational risk aggregation pan bank)