Models that put capital to work.
We build financial models to advise banks, insurers, funds and governments and license them as software for client teams to run internally.
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Risk Control aims to do more than write recommendations. Our quants turn research into working models that price loans, set limits, size capital and release lending capacity.
These models underpin our advisory reports, and are licensed by our clients' risk teams. The analysis you read is analysis you can run.
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Independent analysis for institutions that set the rules.
Strategy reviews, model design and deal support for banks, insurers, funds and governments.
- Risk ModelsRisk departments in financial institutions
- Risk PoliciesRisk departments in financial institutions
- ValuationTreasury and business units in financial institutions
- Research library108 papers
Your risk teams can run the same models.
Credit, capital, stress testing, limits and pricing. Integrated, documented and configured by the quants who wrote them.
- RC-Capital ModelRisk engines
- RC-Non-Financial Risk Capital ModelRisk engines
- RC-Stress Testing SystemRisk engines
- System Package6 modules
The questions our clients bring us
Every paper is built on a model you can license
Capital Adequacy Benchmarking for MDBs
Read the full paper. This report presents a capital adequacy benchmarking analysis for nine prominent Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), conducted by Risk Control and sponsored by the MDB…
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The portfolio capital engine at the centre of the suite — every exposure, every risk factor, every run
See the productGuarantee Companies & Development Finance
This Risk Control study commissioned by FCDO and SECO examines the role of specialist guarantee companies in boosting developing-country investment and growth. We draw lessons for these companies and…
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See what a shock does to your agency rating before the agency does
See the productCapital Consumption-Based Limits: Integrating Limit and Capital Software Systems
Note available here. Many financial institutions (either credit insurers or banks) employ credit limits that are based on par value or Exposure at default (EAD). These have the significant drawback…
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Underwriters check headroom before they write the business
See the productForecasting Assets under Management for Stress Testing and Strategy Purposes
Note available here. For stress testing and strategy formulation, it is important for asset managers to forecast their Assets under Management (AUM) accurately. This paper develops statistical methods…
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Turn a macroeconomic scenario into capital requirements and provisions
See the productRatings-Based Pricing and Stochastic Spreads
This paper generalizes a class of ratings-based credit derivative models proposed by Jarrow, Lando, and Turnbull (1997) and Kijima and Komorib-ayashi (1998) to allow for stochastic spreads and then…
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A hurdle rate, delivered inside the underwriter’s own system
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Capital Cliffs and EU Securitisation Regulations
This report (written jointly by a Risk Control Director and co-authors from leading industry organisations) assesses cliff effects in European securitisation capital rules. Capital cliffs create distortions and exacerbate instability in financial stress…
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Guarantee Companies & Development Finance
This Risk Control study commissioned by FCDO and SECO examines the role of specialist guarantee companies in boosting developing-country investment and growth. We draw lessons for these companies and their equity owners from the experience of prominent…
Full text · figuresMaking the Bank Securitisation Capital Rules Work for Europe
This report assesses the European Commission’s 17th June 2025 proposals for reforming bank securitisations capital rules. While we welcome the intended goal of unlocking bank issuance and investments in securitisation, and the direction of the proposed rule…
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