Advisory

Rating Advisory

Optimisation of a clients current ratings, support for annual rating agency reviews, shadow ratings analysis for different business strategies.

What we deliver
  • Advise clients on preparing for rating agency evaluations
  • Modelled how ratings may be affected by balance sheet expansion scenarios
  • Examined how programatic risk transfer could underpin a bank's ratings
  • Example 1: assisted a financial institution in preparing for its annual rating agency review meetings
  • Example 2: Analysed the consistency of long term corporate plans with the bank's preferred ratings level
  • Example 3: Computed a headroom a bank had to expand lending before a rating downgrade became likely

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