Stress Tests: Delivering Risk Analytics, Crushing Productivity
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Stress Tests: Delivering Risk Analytics, Crushing Productivity
Despite their analytical value, stress tests drain productivity and suffer the dreaded scope creep.
Boston, April 02, 2015 – Stress tests have come of age as analytical endeavors. They present significant opportunities for banks, including data aggregation and risk-related analytics. But they also kill productivity, both for stress-test teams and for the lines of business from which they get their data. How can banks deliver on the good without getting crushed by productivity challenges?
Based on Aite Group surveys of and conversations with stress-testing bankers at large financial institutions in the United States and globally, this piece examines regulatory stress-test requirements and discusses how big banks are approaching the stress-test beast.
This 15-page Impact Note contains six figures. Clients of Aite Group’s Wholesale Banking & Payments or Retail Banking & Payments services can download this report.