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Our projects range widely, but they generally fall into the six areas described below:

Strategic and enterprise risk management

	Reviewing all risk exposures across the company and identifying unwanted risk concentrations

	Assessing the optimal credit rating of the company and defining measures to achieve the optimal rating in next review cycle

	Aiding 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 reinsurance strategy by leveraging alternative risk transfer strategies

Organization and governance

	Putting in place board-level risk oversight

	Designing and implementing a corporate risk-management function

	Establishing risk policies, processes and systems

Financial risk management

	Implementing a cutting-edge approach to asset and liability management

	Determining hedging strategy and defining implementation requirements for a trading unit

	Developing approach to capital allocation and its integration into performance management and business decisions

	Helping an energy utility through a major restructuring, divestiture, and acquisition program to completely reshape its risk-return profile

	Helping an industrial company structure project financing for a major growth program with innovative risk-sharing approaches

Business & commercial risk mangement

	Establishing state-of-the-art credit portfolio management

	Establishing a corporate rating model to support wholesale credit decisions and pricing

	Crafting an underwriting strategy for small-business lending in particular industries

	Optimizing the collection strategy for a major credit-card company

	Developing a new portfolio management and pricing approach for 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

Operational and reputational risk

	Optimizing processes to minimize operational risks and reduce processing costs

	Identifying processes and activities that could compromise data security or customer privacy

Regulatory risk and compliance

	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 how to address them

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