Balance sheet management

Financial institutions of all types must have a complete understanding of their balance sheet in order to navigate a complex financial landscape with confidence.

Moody’s solutions allow you to identify, measure, and manage risks across your balance sheet to create a holistic view of assets, liabilities, and opportunities.

With the breadth of data, analytics, macroeconomic scenarios, and behavioral models, you can better understand risk and perform critical tasks like financial modeling, continuous monitoring, and strategic planning.

Balance sheet management

How can we help?

Using our data, models, and stress testing capabilities, we offer a clear perspective on risk, enabling institutions to make informed decisions regarding complex market, liquidity, solvency, and other risks, while helping to optimize earnings, value, capital, or investor outcomes.

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Effectively measure risk

Our balance sheet management solution offers asset and liability management, interest rate and liquidity risk management, investment strategy, funds transfer pricing (FTP), and multi-factor behavior modeling to measure and enhance profitability.

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Go beyond asset and liability management

Our interconnected SaaS tools enhance balance sheet performance, integrating with analysis, forecasting, and planning processes, going beyond traditional asset and liability management (ALM).

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Streamline complex decision making

Our solutions enhance efficiency and insight, enabling better-informed decisions in key areas like buy/sell, impact analysis, valuation, hedging, and portfolio optimization.

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Integrated solutions for banks

01 Asset and liability management

Asset and liability management

Our Asset and Liability Management (ALM) solution integrates enterprise ALM, liquidity risk management, funds transfer pricing, and regulatory reporting capabilities into a seamless platform, helping you save on upfront technology and modeling investments.

With our internal rate of return (IRR) scenarios and proprietary macroeconomic scenarios, you can better anticipate future risks and identify opportunities for balance sheet stability and business growth. Our platform supports complex decision making by helping you understand your balance sheet risk profile, as well as contractual terms, behavioral characteristics, and profitability components.


02 Funds transfer pricing

Funds transfer pricing

Our Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) solution builds upon our ALM platform to simulate traditional financial statements and reports under a wider variety of planned, shocked, and stressed scenarios.

With our FTP solution, you can reduce duplicate data loads, avoid inconsistent assumptions, and streamline complex setups. Our platform allows you to calculate transfer rates, income, and expenses, export results for profitability analysis, and compare transfer rates using different methodologies and assumptions.


03 Liquidity risk management

Liquidity risk management

Our Liquidity Risk Management solution lets you create different “states of the world”—including base, mild, moderate, and severe scenarios—that help you meet enhanced supervisory standards for measuring specific limits.

With our robust tools, you can perform daily liquidity forecasting at the category level, target increases or decreases in volume, forecast new business, or reinvest a proportion of runoff principal per category. Our tools enable you to model multiple forecasting scenarios in the same processing run and define alternate reporting periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly options.


04 Investment portfolio management

Investment portfolio management

Our Investment Portfolio Management solution drives portfolio optimization by helping you measure and manage portfolio-level risk and return across your portfolios.

Moody’s solution provides banks with a comprehensive toolkit that helps to form diverse strategies for the optimal risk/return trade-off and create relevant trading, funding, and hedging options. 

With our research, data, models, and multi-asset class risk tools, you gain crucial insights that can help you manage portfolio risk, maintain regulatory compliance, and make active asset allocation decisions. Our strategic asset allocation tools provide you with key information that will help you meet your investment objectives.


Asset and liability management

Our Asset and Liability Management (ALM) solution integrates enterprise ALM, liquidity risk management, funds transfer pricing, and regulatory reporting capabilities into a seamless platform, helping you save on upfront technology and modeling investments.

With our internal rate of return (IRR) scenarios and proprietary macroeconomic scenarios, you can better anticipate future risks and identify opportunities for balance sheet stability and business growth. Our platform supports complex decision making by helping you understand your balance sheet risk profile, as well as contractual terms, behavioral characteristics, and profitability components.


Funds transfer pricing

Our Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) solution builds upon our ALM platform to simulate traditional financial statements and reports under a wider variety of planned, shocked, and stressed scenarios.

With our FTP solution, you can reduce duplicate data loads, avoid inconsistent assumptions, and streamline complex setups. Our platform allows you to calculate transfer rates, income, and expenses, export results for profitability analysis, and compare transfer rates using different methodologies and assumptions.


Liquidity risk management

Our Liquidity Risk Management solution lets you create different “states of the world”—including base, mild, moderate, and severe scenarios—that help you meet enhanced supervisory standards for measuring specific limits.

With our robust tools, you can perform daily liquidity forecasting at the category level, target increases or decreases in volume, forecast new business, or reinvest a proportion of runoff principal per category. Our tools enable you to model multiple forecasting scenarios in the same processing run and define alternate reporting periods, including daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly options.


Investment portfolio management

Our Investment Portfolio Management solution drives portfolio optimization by helping you measure and manage portfolio-level risk and return across your portfolios.

Moody’s solution provides banks with a comprehensive toolkit that helps to form diverse strategies for the optimal risk/return trade-off and create relevant trading, funding, and hedging options. 

With our research, data, models, and multi-asset class risk tools, you gain crucial insights that can help you manage portfolio risk, maintain regulatory compliance, and make active asset allocation decisions. Our strategic asset allocation tools provide you with key information that will help you meet your investment objectives.




Solutions for buy-side

01 Asset and liability management

Asset and liability management

Moody's buy-side asset and liability management (ALM) solution helps defined-benefit (DB) pension plans and their advisers to evaluate risk from multiple perspectives and perform real-time scenario stress-testing. It delivers market-leading, cross balance sheet analytics and has been designed to consider the regional regulatory regimes of DB pension plans. This enables a greater understanding of plan performance, and helps promote better strategic decisions. The solution allows you to assess the impact of strategic changes on investment returns, risk, cash contribution requirements, and accounting expenses along with many other key areas.

Designed to meet the needs of asset owners (DB pension plans), asset managers, and consultants, some key features include:

  • Delivery of a transparent view of assets, liabilities, and risk

  • A thorough and informed analysis of a plan's overall position

  • Tailored and automated packages support, streamlined reporting, and enhanced governance


Asset and liability management

Moody's buy-side asset and liability management (ALM) solution helps defined-benefit (DB) pension plans and their advisers to evaluate risk from multiple perspectives and perform real-time scenario stress-testing. It delivers market-leading, cross balance sheet analytics and has been designed to consider the regional regulatory regimes of DB pension plans. This enables a greater understanding of plan performance, and helps promote better strategic decisions. The solution allows you to assess the impact of strategic changes on investment returns, risk, cash contribution requirements, and accounting expenses along with many other key areas.

Designed to meet the needs of asset owners (DB pension plans), asset managers, and consultants, some key features include:

  • Delivery of a transparent view of assets, liabilities, and risk

  • A thorough and informed analysis of a plan's overall position

  • Tailored and automated packages support, streamlined reporting, and enhanced governance


Testimonial

“We need to generate complex asset-liability analytics in a client-friendly manner to engage effectively with our institutional client base. The PFaroe DB tool will help equip us with the right information at the right time allowing us to make informed decisions that can easily be communicated.”

- Stephen Mullin
MetLife Investment Management

Solutions for insurance

01 Actuarial modeling

Actuarial modeling

Our powerful modeling solution supports critical management functions as well as actuarial, investment, finance, and risk decision making.   

We provide a comprehensive set of workflows, including all actuarial analysis applications related to life insurance and pricing, reserving, asset and liability management (ALM), financial projections of earnings and capital, capital calculations, hedging, and financial and regulatory reporting. 

We help you address key challenges that include:

  • Projecting future monthly cash flows per in-force policy and invested assets for up to 100 years

  • Generating current and future date valuations of actuarial reserves and associated financial reporting on multiple bases simultaneously

  • Evaluating blocks of business using deterministic or stochastic projections


02 Capital management

Capital management

Identify, assess, and mitigate risks as well as manage economic and regulatory capital modeling processes through a scalable, enterprise-wide offering.

Our insurance economic capital solution helps insurers calculate economic capital using a one-year, Value-at-Risk (VaR) approach to perform capital allocation by product and risk category. The solution also offers critical insights that help evaluate solvency positions and support risk-based decision making.



Regulatory capital

Our insurance regulatory capital solution addresses business needs and production requirements associated with regulatory capital calculations and reporting. We’ve optimized our solutions to manage the necessary risk and finance data by gathering, consolidating, and quality-checking large, disparate datasets from the systems required for calculations and reporting.


03 Financial planning and analysis

Financial planning and analysis

Insurance is a dynamic industry demanding the continuous assessment of new and evolving risks as well as the application of new regulation and financial reporting standards. Requirements such as IFRS 9, IFRS 17, LDTI, and climate disclosures exponentially increase modeling complexity and volume. Greater efficiency and reliability in actuarial modeling is essential to meet reporting deadlines and governance standards. 

Our solution includes all the essential components of regulatory and financial reporting, earnings analysis, projections, and financial and capital planning. We also support advanced accounting frameworks such as IFRS 9, IFRS 17, and LDTI, and other important regulatory requirements such as Solvency II, C-ROSS, Hong Kong RBC, and NAIC.


Actuarial modeling

Our powerful modeling solution supports critical management functions as well as actuarial, investment, finance, and risk decision making.   

We provide a comprehensive set of workflows, including all actuarial analysis applications related to life insurance and pricing, reserving, asset and liability management (ALM), financial projections of earnings and capital, capital calculations, hedging, and financial and regulatory reporting. 

We help you address key challenges that include:

  • Projecting future monthly cash flows per in-force policy and invested assets for up to 100 years

  • Generating current and future date valuations of actuarial reserves and associated financial reporting on multiple bases simultaneously

  • Evaluating blocks of business using deterministic or stochastic projections


Capital management

Identify, assess, and mitigate risks as well as manage economic and regulatory capital modeling processes through a scalable, enterprise-wide offering.

Our insurance economic capital solution helps insurers calculate economic capital using a one-year, Value-at-Risk (VaR) approach to perform capital allocation by product and risk category. The solution also offers critical insights that help evaluate solvency positions and support risk-based decision making.



Regulatory capital

Our insurance regulatory capital solution addresses business needs and production requirements associated with regulatory capital calculations and reporting. We’ve optimized our solutions to manage the necessary risk and finance data by gathering, consolidating, and quality-checking large, disparate datasets from the systems required for calculations and reporting.


Financial planning and analysis

Insurance is a dynamic industry demanding the continuous assessment of new and evolving risks as well as the application of new regulation and financial reporting standards. Requirements such as IFRS 9, IFRS 17, LDTI, and climate disclosures exponentially increase modeling complexity and volume. Greater efficiency and reliability in actuarial modeling is essential to meet reporting deadlines and governance standards. 

Our solution includes all the essential components of regulatory and financial reporting, earnings analysis, projections, and financial and capital planning. We also support advanced accounting frameworks such as IFRS 9, IFRS 17, and LDTI, and other important regulatory requirements such as Solvency II, C-ROSS, Hong Kong RBC, and NAIC.


Testimonial

“IFRS 17 implementation has become a key lever for modernizing and industrializing our actuarial processes. We chose Moody’s solutions AXIS™ and RiskIntegrity™ for IFRS 17 based on their balance between out-of-the-box predefined structure and flexibility, which will help us simplify the implementation and modeling of all our life insurance products.”

- Carlos González
Chief Financial Officer, Seguros RGA

News and views

article
UK balance sheets: The link between interest rates and deposits

A sharp rate cycle was initiated in 2021 by central banks in a number of major economies which continued throughout 2022. In the case of the UK, this is the fastest that rates have risen in over three decades. As policy rates have fed through to deposits, banks’ balance sheets have been shifting.

Source: Moody’s

  • Banking
  • Balance sheet management
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Preparing for IFRS 17, is your actuarial system ready?

IFRS 17 represents the most significant accounting change in the insurance industry in more than two decades. The new standard requires updates to insurers’ actuarial systems and time is of the essence.

Source: Moody’s

  • Insurance
  • Balance sheet management
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Capital stress testing: More than just a regulatory exercise

Institutions of all sizes have raced to the finish line and wrapped up their annual capital plan and stress testing this April. What made this year’s exercise unique is that it coincided with the onset of the banking crisis.

Source: Moody’s Ratings

  • Banking
  • Balance sheet management
whitepaper
Getting more from your actuarial modeling

As modeling requirements grow and insurers’ models become more complex, there is a greater recognition of the operational risks involved in the actuarial modeling process. Insurers must put appropriate model controls and governance in place to reduce opportunities for errors in the modeling process.

Source: Moody’s

  • Insurance
  • Balance sheet management
article
Do Funds Transfer Pricing methodologies still work with excess deposits?

Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) methodologies are based on the recognition that both lending and deposit activities should be economically viable for banks. New challenges have arisen recently on the liability side, which have resulted in a glut of deposits on bank balance sheets.

Source: Moody’s

  • Banking
  • Balance sheet management

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