Introduction to Stress Testing and Scenario Analytics

2 Introduction to Stress Testing and Scenario Analytics

Oracle Financial Service Stress Testing and Scenario Analytics (OFSSTSA) empowers banks and financial institutions with an integrated and centralized solution for enterprise-wide stress tests and scenario analysis. Compliance with regulatory requirements is streamlined, while enabling ad-hoc impact assessments and scenario analysis as part of routine business processes and decision-making. Fully integrated with Model Management & Governance (MMG), Process Modelling Framework (PMF), Data Pipelines, and a net new Data Catalog, OFSSTSA allows citizen and business users to effortlessly define variables, metrics, portfolios, scenarios, and stress testing projects. The product is vendor-agnostic and orchestrates centralized scenarios across Oracle and third-party models, providing a comprehensive view of impacts across revenue growth assumptions, credit risk, market risk, operations risk, and capital & liquidity impacts.

Key Capabilities

In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, regulatory compliance, strategic planning, and risk management are critical for success. OFSSTSA offers a comprehensive solution to empower financial institutions in navigating these challenges successfully.

Centralized Repository: A centralized repository facilitates the definition and management of various objects such as variables, models, metrics, datasets, orchestration process flows, and business-relevant scenarios. This repository allows users across the organization to refer to, share, compare, and utilize essential resources effectively.
Model Management and Governance: The platform is embedded with robust model management and governance capabilities, enabling the creation, upload, execution, and management of a suite of in-house, Oracle, and third-party models with ease.
Extensible Data Catalog: Equipped with a versatile data catalog, the system can seamlessly incorporate various datasets, including in-house, Oracle, third-party, or external data. The data catalog ensures logical linking of data elements to data structures, promoting data harmonization and synchronous perturbation of data elements across the enterprise.
Intelligent Process Modeling Engine: The platform features an intelligent process modeling engine that facilitates the sequential scheduling of all processes across the enterprise. This enables seamless orchestration based on a harmonized set of scenarios, data, and methodologies, empowering users to run multiple complex scenarios simultaneously and develop actionable solutions.
Intuitive Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis: A user-friendly interface guides business users through an intuitive step-by-step process for stress testing and scenario analysis. Validation routines and auto-recommendations minimize errors, reduce runtime, and expedite decision-making.
Vendor Agnostic Framework: The product offers a vendor-agnostic framework supporting the registration, scheduling, and usage of existing business-as-usual (BAU) models and engines, whether from Oracle or otherwise, thereby leveraging the existing digital assets for stress testing and scenario analytics.
Seamless BAU Integration: With its intuitive and robust capabilities, coupled with the ability to analyze a holistic view of scenario impacts across various risk domains, the platform enables seamless integration of stress testing and scenario analytics into day-to-day operations. This facilitates ad-hoc, frequent, and routine use of stress testing and scenario analytics, empowering organizations to make informed decisions promptly.
Analytical Dashboards: The product features out of box analytical dashboards across four key reporting areas. These dashboards provide actionable insights based on results, enabling data-driven, informed, and timely decision-making by stakeholders across the enterprise. They integrate stress testing, financial planning, capital planning, liquidity planning, risk appetite planning, strategic business planning and other measures that positively impact business, profitability and return metrics.

Architecture Information

The following figure depicts the various frameworks and capabilities that make up the STSA Infrastructure.

Figure 2-1 STSA Topology