Risk Management Solutions

Enterprise Stress Testing

Identify opportunities and risks using scenario-based analysis, including stress testing.

How SAS^® Supports Enterprise Stress Testing

A comprehensive solution, focusing on integration, orchestration, workflows and governance.

While stress testing has primarily served as a vehicle for bank supervision, scenario-based analytics is emerging as a valuable tool for capital planning and strategic business management at financial institutions. SAS offers a comprehensive solution for scenario analysis that addresses the entire stress test production cycle and provides the ability to bring risk and finance numbers together into a single view.

Configurable workflows & centralized orchestration

An embedded workflow engine lets you specify tasks, timelines and approval paths.
Centralized status monitoring enables you to track progress against plans, provide approvals, and include attachments and comments for each step.
Centralized scenario management lets you import, export, store and change scenarios easily.
Our solution includes configurable portfolio segmentation and business evolution plans.

Powerful data management with integrated governance & controls

Preconfigured data quality rules are mapped to BCBS239 principles.
A controlled, centralized model library automatically documents all changes to data and facilitates model control by enabling all models to be versioned and searched.
The solution lets you promote models from development to production, as well as archive previous model versions.
Security management capabilities protect project data, models, scenarios, hierarchies and configuration.

High-performance, adaptive architecture

High-performance, in-database/in-memory execution enables timely, on-demand simulations, analysis and decisions.
The solution scales to the size and complexity of your institution, up to the largest and most complex global enterprises, and is designed to adapt to changing business needs and market requirements.

Why choose SAS for enterprise stress testing?

SAS provides a comprehensive, integrated stress testing environment that can adapt to changing business needs and market requirements.

Significantly shorten cycle times

Produce results faster and become more responsive and influential to business decision making. Deepen analysis over a wider range of scenarios in less time.

Align stress tests with internal capital planning

Ensure consistency and alignment across internal budgeting and forecasting exercises, and with capital distribution and growth plans.

Integrate risk analytics

Stress testing is just one of multiple SAS offerings that sit on top of an integrated risk and finance platform (SAS Risk Stratum) that also includes components for CECL/IFRS9, ALM and model risk management.