Paragon Credit Risk Manager System (CRM)

Defines workflow in the application to follow your organization’s corporate compliance, risk policy, and service level agreements. Assigns users to their tier of credit approval and identifies the user or department responsible for the next task in a workflow process.

Stores all of your organization’s counterparty information as the system of record. Manages the entire counterparty process from onboarding to credit assessment and maintenance while storing and reporting on contacts, billing and notice addresses, related entities, industry classifications, credit ratings, limits and limit allocations, and tenor restrictions.

Manages contractual relationships including terms & conditions, trade agreements, credit support annexes, parent guarantees, and structured transactions. Allows users to easily define contractual parties, covered transaction types, and netting rights and to add unlimited user-defined fields for additional information. Allows scanned copies of agreements and other documentation to be attached to records and stored in the database. Provides a system of record for the contract revision process, and accepts data manually and from other upstream systems of record.

Real-time evaluation of available credit with a variety of calculations (60-Day Notional Exposure, Unbilled + Fwd Cash + Fwd, etc.). Accepts all fields generated from other systems with drill-down to exposure details at the systems’ granularity. Custom views of top exposures, top obligations, credit line utilization, available credit, and collateral requirements that can be saved per user or group, shared, and used in automated or ad-hoc reporting. Easy to read custom graphics for understanding daily credit position based on a variety of metrics. Includes tools to build robust single series or multi-series charts using modern drag and drop functionality.

Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate transactions and determine potential future exposure at various confidence intervals, and the impacts of rating downgrades and migrations on collateral. CVaR and Expected Shortfall Risk for quantifying possible extreme losses due to future credit events, and a Parallel Shift model to view potential exposure and collateral effects after market shocks.

Unlimited custom scoring models for various counterparty types, and integration with various financial and market data sources including the SEC Edgar Online system, Dun and Bradstreet, Bloomberg, and others. An optional financial statement feed from xIgnite is available to monitor public company filings.

Margining automates the collateral process from the margin call to the calculation of interest on collateral. Margin and interest calls can be emailed directly from the application on client configured templates that can be changed as needed. Manages letters of credit that can be linked to margin calls or trade-specific transactions. Tracks fees and limits associated with letters of credit issued by your credit facility minimizing credit support costs. Manages additional credit support of cash, prepayment, surety bonds, and credit insurance, and allows users to define an unlimited number of other collateral types and behaviors. Allows users to manage parental guarantees and measure utilization.