Our expertise
Business and Commercial Risk Management
We work with clients to establish state-of-the-art credit portfolio management practice and a corporate rating model to support wholesale credit decisions and pricing. We also help to craft an underwriting strategy for small-business lending in particular industries. Examples of the kind of work we do include:
- Optimizing the collection strategy for a major credit card company
- Developing a new portfolio management and pricing approach for a leading commercial properties underwriter
- Assisting a consumer packaged goods company manage volatile and increasing commodity input costs
- Crafting a long-term energy supply contract with an acceptable risk-sharing arrangement
Financial Risk Management
We collaborate with our clients to implement effective strategies for managing assets and liabilities as well as allocating capital and integrating it into performance management and business decisions. Our experience includes:
- Determining a hedging strategy and defining implementation requirements for a trading unit
- Helping an energy utility through a major restructuring, divestiture, and acquisition program to completely reshape its risk-return profile
- Helping an industrial company structure financing with innovative risk-sharing approaches for a major growth program
Operational and Reputational Risk
In close collaboration with our clients, we help optimize processes to minimize a company’s operational risks and reduce processing costs. We also identify procedures and activities that could compromise data security or customer privacy.
Organization and Governance
We help our clients put in place board-level risk oversight, design and implement a corporate risk-management function, and establish risk policies, processes, and systems.
Regulatory Risk and Compliance
Working with our clients, we help develop and implement regulatory risk and compliance strategies. Our experience includes:
- Working with a bank to structure its Basel II implementation program by estimating necessary parameters, conducting use tests, and assessing regulatory compliance
- Working with a medical products manufacturer to map key event risks in its portfolio and determine how to address them
Strategic and Enterprise Risk Management
We help review risk exposures across a company and identify unwanted risk concentrations. We also work with corporate leadership to determine a company’s optimal credit rating and define measures to achieve that rating in the next review cycle. Example of our work include:
- Helping a multinational real estate manager navigate the impact of global macroeconomic and country risks on its portfolio
- Supporting a major telecommunications company in upgrading its risk-management organization and processes
- Optimizing a company’s reinsurance strategy by building on alternative risk-transfer strategies