CONNECTING THE REGULATORY DOTS

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Lux Clara specialises in finance, regulatory reporting & risk. Our experienced consulting team supports financial services companies to meet their regulatory requirements, efficiently manage their data, and streamline their solutions. We use our hands-on experience & knowledge to help organizations achieve their strategic vision and projects.

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We have a versatile and geographically distributed team of experienced professionals in the Baltics, Poland and Belgium. As a team we can cover all project roles, ranging from the interpretation of regulations, the definition of data requirements, the analysis of business processes and systems, to various levels of management, both from a technical and a functional angle. We can execute a project independently from start to finish or complement your existing delivery and business teams with a specific skill set. We tailor our work to our customers' needs to ensure the job is done according to expectations and requirements.

Roles

Advisory

  • Strategic planning
  • Software & vendor selection
  • Delivery roadmap management

Business & System Analysis

  • Subject matter expertise
  • Requirements, process design, impact analysis
  • Data requirements, data mapping

Management

  • Project and program management
  • Change management
  • Team management, planning & status follow-up

Development

  • Database development, C#, JAVA, Python
  • Data interfaces
  • Process orchestration (workflow)

Architecture

  • Requirements
  • Solution design & planning
  • Stakeholder management

Testing & Support

  • Planning & coordination
  • Framework and Automation
  • Execution

Expertise

General

General

  • Banking Products and Business Processes
  • Solution Implementation, Migration & Support
  • Business Process analysis & development
  • Staff augmentation & specialised skillset
  • Agile Project Excecution

Finance

Finance

  • General Ledger
  • Sub-Ledger
  • Reconciliation
  • IFRS Adjustments
  • Event Based Accounting

Data & Processes

Data & Processes

  • Data Model Design & Implementation
  • ECB Asset Quality Review (AQR): granular data
  • ECB Stress Testing (data process)
  • Data Interface Design and Development (ETL)
  • Data Governance
  • Data Migration
  • Process Orchestration & Workflow
  • Data Engineering / Data Science
  • Business Intelligence, Internal Reporting

Regulatory Reporting & Risk

Regulatory Reporting & Risk

  • Regulatory Reporting (EBA, SRB, Statistical Reporting, Local Reporting)
  • ESG reporting (EU Taxonomy, CSRD/ESRS, Pillar 3 ESG)
  • Basel Capital Requirements (CRR/CRD, COREP)
  • Regulatory Risk Calculators: ALM (Interest Rate Risk / Liquidity Risk)
  • IFRS 9 (ECL)
  • Market Risk: Product Valuation
  • Risk Modelling (PD/LGD)
  • Adenza Axiom / WKFS OneSumX / Aquilonius

Projects

  • Resolution reporting

    • End to end business analysis, system analysis and development for Resolution reporting (LDR, Bail-in dataset, Valuation dataset, Resolution metrics).
    • Resolution reporting automation roadmap design, implementation and stakeholder management.

    ESG data and reporting (Finance)

    • Subject matter expertise and horizon scanning for EU Taxonomy, CSRD, Pillar 3 ESG disclosures and various ad hoc ESG related regulatory requests.
    • Business analysis and implementation of a consolidated ESG Data Set providing a summarized view of Finance data inputs for ESG regulations.

    CRRIII implementation

    • Analysis and implementation of the CRRIII changes in risk analytics software for regulatory reporting (AxiomSL/Adenza).

    Regulatory Reporting: Corep Improvements and Business support

    • Analysis and implementation of capital extended validations in risk analytics software for regulatory reporting (AxiomSL/Adenza) used as part of COREP control process.
    • Validating, summarizing, and presenting COREP reporting results to the business.

    Regulatory Reporting: Schema A (Belgium), Business support

    • Business support for the preparation of Belgian local regulatory reports (Schema A), including report validation, stakeholder meetings, issue & process coordination (Adenza / AxiomSL).

    Annual Accounts

    • Support and coordination for the Annual Accounts preparation, presentations to the Audit Committee, Executive Committee and Board Directors meeting.
  • Regulatory reporting (WKFS OneSumX)

    • Implementation of Finrep and local NL reporting.
    • Setting up the data flow from posting until final report.
    • Temporary WKFS team leader (substituting for WKFS person on maternity leave).

    Global banks

    Dutch universal bank
  • IFRS 9 (ECL) implementation

    • Analyzing the impact of the new ECL calculations on the existing accounting flow, regulatory calculations, and disclosure processes.
    • Designing the process flow, from modelling results till final disclosure.
    • Implementing and testing the new ECL process flow, together with the bank team.

    Unified regulatory reporting

    • Merging the different country specific regulatory reporting solutions into one standardized instance.
    • Design and creation of a standardized regulatory data mart, a group wide and single point of the regulatory truth.
    • Rewiring of the regulatory processes to the new data mart.

    ECB Comprehensive Assessment exercise

    • Data and Regulatory Reporting analysis with a focus on Asset Quality Review and Stress Testing part (Credit Risk, Market Risk, Net Interest Income).
    • Design of the data and process flow, including reconciliation, versioning and run management.

    Synthetic securitization program

    • Leading role in the analysis and design of a management and reporting module for a synthetic securitization program.
    • Study of the impact to the Basel & COREP processes.
    • Supporting the business with the monthly processes and reporting towards the different authorities.
    • Setting up a framework for the management and reporting of synthetic securitization and the integration of this in the EBA regulatory Capital Requirement calculations and COREP reporting.

    Regulatory Reporting: EBA DPM updates

    • Performing analysis related to the implementation of the EBA 2.10/EBA 3.0 frameworks: changes to regulatory risk calculations, FINREP, COREP, NSFR and Pillar 3 packages.
    • Reviewing, implementing, and configuring regulatory changes to underlying risk calculations and EBA frameworks (FINREP, COREP, NSFR, FRTB and Pillar 3 packages), supporting business during the reporting cycle.

    Regulatory Reporting: Basel Calculation and COREP Reporting

    • Design and implementation of the regulatory calculation framework (COREP, Basel) and Regulatory Reporting.
    • Formulating and explaining data requirements, communication with business departments, supporting the development team, functionally testing the results.

    Risk Data Mart Project

    • Data analysis for the creation of a new Risk Data Mart, consolidating data coming from various systems and countries.

    ECB Stress Testing

    • Business analysis and data process design for an ECB stress testing exercise of a pan-Baltic bank, including reconciliation.
  • ECB Comprehensive Assessment & Stress Testing

    • Data delivery for an ECB Comprehensive Assessment exercise (loan tapes, customer tapes, stress testing input).
    • Preparing and analyzing data for an ECB Stress Testing exercise.

    Synthetic securitization program

    • Analysis, design and development of a management and reporting module for a synthetic securitization program. Study of the impact on the Basel & COREP processes.
  • Solution vendor selection (RFI / RFP advisory)

    • Regulatory reporting for main ECB reporting packages (FINREP, COREP, LQR (LCR, AMM, NSFR), Pillar 3) and SRB (LDR, valuation dataset).
    • Modelling and scenario analysis for ECB Stress Testing (mainly CR and NII), and IRRBB

    BALTIC BANKS

    Lithuanian retail bank
  • Business Support for Finance and Risk

    • Analyzing, implementing, updating, and supporting the regulatory reporting process for various modules of the EBA reporting framework (e.g., ESG, SRB, LQR), from data till disclosure (Aguilonius).
    • AML Application support (Linux, Python, SQL).
    • VBA development for business processes.

    EUROPEAN BANKS

    Belgian retail bank
  • Credit Risk and Regulatory Reporting solution implementation (WKFS OneSumX)

    • Parametrization of the CRR (Basel) solution.
    • Automation of the deployment and the end-to-end process flow.
    • Implementation of FDA (financial data layer), consolidation, EBA Regulatory Reporting.
    • Analysis, implementation, configuration and testing of financial products valuation in RiskPro.

    EUROPEAN BANKS

    German universal bank
  • Credit Risk solution implementation (WKFS OneSumX)

    • Project management (on behalf of the vendor).

    EUROPEAN BANKS

    Austrian universal bank
  • Regulatory reporting solution implementation (WKFS OneSumX)

    • Project management (on behalf of the vendor).
    • Analyzing, implementing, updating, and supporting the regulatory reporting process for various modules of the EBA reporting framework, from data till disclosure.

    EUROPEAN BANKS

    Cyprian commercial bank
  • Basel (CRR III / CRD IV) solution development program

    • Analyzing regulatory requirements, supporting the development team with the design of the Basel software packages (calculators and reporting).
    • Coordinating and training of the development teams.
    • Providing input for the roadmap planning.

    Solution implementations

    • Project Management on Regulatory Reporting and CRRIII projects.
    • Senior Functional Consultant on an IFRS9 project at a pan Baltic bank.

    OTHER INITIATIVES

    Global software vendor

Our Story

Lux Clara Consulting was established in Belgium and the Baltics in 2017. It was founded by Gaëtan Serruys, a highly experienced Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting advisor with 20 years of experience in the financial services industry in various roles (consultant, project manager, head of professional services) and regions (Europe, North America, Asia, Australia).

Over the past few years we built a team of experienced and knowledgeable professionals who assist in the definition, implementation and ongoing management of your finance, risk and regulatory reporting landscape, guiding and supporting you during all the steps of the process.

Gaëtan Serruys

Gaëtan Serruys

Founder

Regulatory Risk and Reporting Advisor

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