Domain Expertise
Axe Finance’s consulting division does not take a standard "consulting firm" approach offering generalist consultants. Rather, we propose a pool of "Experts" who accurately and comprehensively address client requirements and deliver the most appropriate know how and orientation. We believe in specialization and quality rather than generic interventions and quantity.
Due to the complexity of our business domain, we must always adapt our services to our client's environments and cultures. This ability to create fresh tailored expertise and service offerings allows us to keep adding value to our clients as their businesses and environments shift.
Our experts have valuable experience in Risk Management within international Financial Institutions. They have a high level know-how of Banking and Trading book instruments including complex and structured products.
Banking
- Credit Risk for the banking book
- Credit Application Workflows and Processes
- Counterparty Risk for trading book (PFE, EPE, etc.)
- Settlement Risk
- Market Risk (Value at Risk, Earning At Risk, etc)
- Asset/Liability Management (Portfolio simulations, Liquidity Risk, etc)
- Operational Risk (Data collection, Events, Controls, Scorecards, etc)
- Basel II - Pillar I: Capital Adequacy (Standard and IRB approaches for Credit Risk including LGD and provision calculations)
- Basel II - Pillar II: Back-testing of internal models, ALM, Large Exposures, etc
- Basel II - Pillar III: Market discipline and Regulatory Reporting
- Back-Testing (Credit Risk parameters such as PD, LGD, etc)
- Economic Capital
- Loan loss and recovery
- Internal rating processes
- Front-to-back office (Instrument valuations, Straight Through Processing, SWIFT messaging, Payment processes, Cash and Securities Accounting, Settlement processes, etc)
Insurance
- Provision calculations
- Asset / Liability Management
- Accounting
- Financial Risk Management
- Solvency II