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As banks face an increasingly stringent
regulatory environment, they need to efficiently manage risk and
exposure across operations and divisions. Successful institutions
are acquiring, consolidating, and increasing market share,
expanding product offerings and offering innovative structures
and services across commercial portfolios. However, the spiraling
complexities of risk management threaten to limit growth. The Basel
II Accord exacerbates the challenge by mandating that all
risk-related decisions and processes be fully tracked and analyzed
to support enterprise risk management requirements.
To enable institutions to turn these challenges into opportunities, CapitalStream provides a common platform to streamline, manage and monitor enterprise risk and exposure across the commercial portfolio
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including mid-market, small business, equipment finance and commercial mortgage. CapitalStream is a complete Straight Through Processing platform that allows credit analysts and risk managers to collaborate more effectively with the entire front office as they gather, review and analyze the information necessary to manage risk and meet reporting requirements for individual relationships, product portfolios and across the financial institution.
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Risk is created through individual transactions, decisions and relationships. The first step in managing risk is to ensure the people involved in negotiating the transactions and managing the relationships have the information and controls to make decisions in line with the bank's policies. Using CapitalStream your team can easily analyze relationships, covenants, compliance, rate, credit, asset, balance, transaction and other information to identify risks, assess exposure and monitor for policy exceptions. Input, spread and analyze financial statements using your current models or spreadsheets with easy drill-down to all related information. Underwriters can then quickly take action on the information to initiate account reviews, change risk ratings, send notices and schedule follow-up calls or process renewals, amendments or restructures.
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CapitalStream enables front office as well
as bank-wide personnel to access information easily, no
matter what system or document contains that information.
Using a standard Web browser, CapitalStream allows risk
managers and credit underwriters to collaborate, using
consolidated views of each customer's direct, contingent and
total exposure, as well as balances and profitability.
Information in your current credit applications and write-ups
- even if it is sitting in spreadsheet files - can be
extracted, monitored, consolidated and analyzed. By
providing visibility into the whole customer relationship
consolidated from all documents, models and systems across
products, channels and divisions, CapitalStream speeds the
process of analyzing exposure and risk.
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CapitalStream provides flexible gateways
that integrate with your current commercial lending tools
and systems to give relationship managers, underwriters,
and credit officers the access they need to see credit and
payment history, covenant compliance and aggregated direct
and contingent exposure. Front office and risk management
teams enjoy instant access to integrated information from
your existing enterprise data warehouses, financial analysis
tools and servicing systems.
The bottom line: your enterprise risk management
resources spend more time understanding and reviewing
exposure and compliance and less time searching for
information or re-entering data between documents,
spreadsheets and systems.
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Operational risk management requires that
the appropriate steps are completed and policies are checked
according to the type of product, size of relationship,
risk rating, credit score and many other criteria.
CapitalStream's flexible process management engine can be
configured to support a wide variety of finance operations -
from high touch, low volume commercial relationships to low
touch, high volume small ticket relationships. Each type of
operation is handled very differently from dedicated
relationship teams requiring flexible collaboration to
large centralized operations requiring step by step
automation.
Using rules-based checklists that are flexible and
dynamic, risk managers can configure the appropriate
policies and controls for each line of business and then
monitor to ensure the process is followed. Any exceptions
or overrides can be tracked along with the associated
decision and supporting credit information. Overall, risk
managers, bank management and regulators have visibility
into the decision process to ensure policies are adhered
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CapitalStream’s integrated risk analysis
tools give managers access to real time cross-portfolio
information to monitor critical indices. Sophisticated
credit decisioning processes can be defined and managed to
integrate advanced credit scoring models for smaller
relationships with credit review and approval routing for
larger, risk-rated relationships. Underwriters have full
visibility into approval processes, decisions and rationale
for each relationship, credit request and individual
facility/product. Risk managers can easily review
individual credit actions or entire portfolios. Exceptions
and manual overrides along with the associated rationale
are tracked for subsequent review, and reviewers can
instantly drill down to relevant financial analysis and
exposure information. All changes in risk ratings or credit
scores can be tracked along with the associated
delinquencies and defaults to calculate likelihood of
default and expected loss given default in support of
Basel II Advanced IRB requirements.
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