AMBIT ISLAMIC BANKING Ambit Risk Management & Compliance
AMBIT RISK MANAGEMENT & COMPLIANCE FOR ISLAMIC BANKING With Islamic banking growing at rapid rates, a new and highly competitive playing field has been introduced in the global marketplace. Competition in this area is being heightened by the entry of large multinational banks with Islamic banking arms into Arab domestic markets. Resulting from this activity, smaller-sized Islamic banks will need to consolidate their operations, while new startup Islamic banks will need to seek out help from a core solution that is capable of supporting a complete set of Sharia h-compliant products (e.g., Musharakah, Murabaha, Mudaraba, Ijara, Istisna a) and accurately manage risk.. The demand for more expertise on Islamic banking finance and products is therefore increasing to sustain growth. Responding to this industry trend, SunGard offers Ambit Risk Management & Compliance, a comprehensive solution for Islamic banks that desire to gain a competitive edge. Effective management of risk and compliance can provide Islamic banks with an advantage by giving them a unified view of risk and performance measurements across all activities and markets. This helps to drive a greater understanding of your bank's complete financial picture and allows decisions to be driven by common strategies and assumptions. Developing that holistic view can be a challenge, however Ambit Risk Management & Compliance can help by offering a centralized view of cash, liquidity and risk across the enterprise, making it easier for you to improve decision-making and maximize returns. SunGard's Ambit delivers a comprehensive, scalable framework combining market, credit, stress and scenario-based risk management with Sharia h and Basel II compliance and reporting in a single, integrated suite. A complete solution used by risk managers, credit administrators, auditors and financial planners, our offering can be tailored to the needs of your bank. SunGard has designed Ambit Risk Management & Compliance on a highly flexible platform, which is intuitive enough to support a broad range of Sharia h-specific requirements. RISK MANAGEMENT & COMPLIANCE The Islamic marketplace is a realm unto itself, characterized by unique financial needs, when compared to conventional banking. Aware of these specific needs, SunGard has designed Ambit Risk Management & Compliance on a highly flexible platform, which is intuitive enough to support a broad range of Sharia hspecific requirements, while at the same time capable of addressing the traditional set of financial and business concerns that banks all over the world must deal with. Ambit Risk Management & Compliance can provide your bank with the tools necessary to effectively manage risk and achieve compliance with regionrelated controls and laws.
ASSET/LIABILITY MANAGEMENT Today, maintaining a competitive advantage demands active risk management - not risk avoidance. As an asset/liability management professional, you know that effective balance sheet management requires tools that enable sophisticated, dynamic modeling and financial statement simulation using the latest financial techniques. Working with SunGard, you can feel confident that you have access to the advanced systems you need as well as the ability to integrate these into an enterprise wide infrastructure that can support your bank's growth. SunGard s Ambit solutions provide your bank with the leading asset/ liability management (ALM) solution for banking institutions of all sizes worldwide - whether a complex multinational financial institution or a small Islamic bank, with support for static and dynamic ALM. BASEL II Compliance with the Basel II accord means being able to identify, generate, track and report on risk-related data in an integrated manner with full auditability and transparency. It also offers a unique opportunity to improve your risk management processes and ultimately your bottom-line performance. Ambit BancWare Capital Manager can help support both conventional and Islamic banking products within the Basel II framework. SunGard has worked with banks in the Middle East and around the world to meet Basel II compliance requirements and develop risk-sensitive approaches for managing regulatory and economic capital and understanding credit risk. We can help you at all stages of your Basel II project, from data management and reconciliation to regulatory capital calculations and reporting. Our modular approach allows you to build on your existing infrastructure, leveraging what you already have and adding functionality as and when you need it. Designed with business users in mind, our solutions support a wide range of asset classes, and all credit and operational risk approaches, as well as the standardized approach for market risk. We also enable business users to easily perform sophisticated ad-hoc stress testing and what-if analysis, as well as validation and back testing, ensuring compliance with ICAAP requirements including Pillar II and III. MANAGE SHARIA H COMPLIANCE & OTHER REGIONAL RISK The various regulatory frameworks within which Islamic banking is developing are often contradicting and can pose problems. Therefore, standardization of Sharia h-compliant rules across the sector is becoming increasingly necessary. Ambit Risk Management & Compliance can offer an integrated risk approach that will help your bank easily meet Sharia h compliance, while at the same time
offering support for other types of risk that Middle Eastern banks must deal with, such as commodities and inventory risk, equity position risk, mark-up risk and transfer risk. With the open technology offered by this solution, you will also be able to remain aligned with risk management guidelines set forth by the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB). ECONOMIC CAPITAL - RAROC Experienced bankers realize that effective risk and capital management can provide objective and quantifiable answers to their critical business questions. As a result, top performing banks are choosing to evolve their risk and capital management practices and adopt current best practice approaches. But where to start? SunGard can help. We work with Islamic banks to help rapidly and cost-effectively deploy the type of RAROC framework that more and more banks are adopting to address their most complex risk and capital management needs. Combining market, credit, operational and ALM components with economic capital analytics, we provide a comprehensive and inclusive picture of your risk profile and plan of action. We help you to explicitly analyze, manage and price the risks across all business lines - lending, trading, processing, asset management and other fee-based businesses - and maximize returns while assuming acceptable levels of risk. Whether your goal is to gain control over your enterprise risk management, optimize capital deployment or improve earnings stability, our expert consultants can help you to make informed decisions that improve your bottom-line results on an ongoing basis. OPERATIONAL RISK company policy, and meeting regulatory, legal and Sharia h-specific standards. Simultaneously, businesses are also under pressure to improve their operational efficiency and reduce operating-related errors and omissions. To meet these challenges, financial institutions must implement proper control procedures and systems to ensure that the costs of compliance are reduced while margins are maximized. Ambit Risk Management & Compliance can help Islamic banks to reduce risk through providing the tools necessary for them to comply with operational risk and corporate governance regulations, as well as recommended standards such as Basel II, Sarbanes Oxley and Turnbull. Working with SunGard, you can feel confident that you have access to the advanced systems you need as well as the ability to integrate these into an enterprise wide infrastructure that can support your bank's growth. CONSOLIDATED VIEW OF PROFITABILITY Gain a complete picture of your bank s profitability with Ambit BancWare Profitability. Ambit BancWare Profitability provides you with the tools needed to manage customer relationships, as well as monitor business performance. Rather than using separate solutions for customer, line of business and product profitability, Ambit BancWare Profitability can report a bank's profitability across all these dimensions and more in a single application. This eliminates conflicting views of profitability, and presents management reports across the entire scope of the organization. And unlike other systems, Ambit BancWare Profitability allows you to analyze profitability across unlimited dimensions. Now more than ever, managers must ensure that the businesses they control are operating within the boundaries of
Only Ambit BancWare Profitability lets you calculate profitability at the account level, and then aggregate up - for improved accuracy and better decision-making and budgeting. AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE & OPEN TECHNOLOGY Flexibility and agility are key and the ability to build new applications from existing business components is a good way to maximize technology ROI. Ambit Risk Management & Compliance helps Islamic banks become more agile through open technology that supports easy adoption of international standards and best practices. Integrating business processes can unlock residual business potential from existing technology investments, without taking a long time. This provides the business with faster tools and new ways to monitor business activities. SunGard's Infinity is our technology strategy, which is comprised of a registry of software components, service oriented architecture governance through our common services architecture, business process management, support and quality assurance through our center of excellence and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery. SunGard's Ambit Risk Management & Compliance solution uses Infinity to meet the rapid and ever-changing demands of the Islamic market and the global banking industry as a whole. We selected SunGard's Ambit Risk Management & Compliance for its ability to help us implement an integrated risk approach and meet regulatory requirements. It is especially important to us that Ambit BancWare Capital Manager can effectively support both conventional and Islamic banking products within the Basel II framework Waleed Abdulla Rashdan, head of risk management for Kuwait Finance House Bahrain
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