To secure, fasten and shorten the CRD IV project delivery cycle, B&D Risk Technology Consulting is proposing high-caliber project management services.

1. Basel III Project Management Services
CRD IV IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES

2. The CRD IV challenge at a glance
IT HAPPENS ACROSS THE BANK AND IT HAPPENS NOW.

3. A clear scope and defined assignent
BENEFITS AND UNDERSTANDING OF B&D CONTRIBUTION
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Business & Decision would deliver defied work packages in a high degree of autonomy,
offering the following advantages
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The scope could be spanning across:
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Committed delivery of identified work packages
Combine internal delivery methodology with external expertise
Autonomous staffing and resource allocation
Operational involvement of project manager locally
Continued involvement of business and ensured knowledge transfer
Regulatory compliance and Basel III / CRD IV requirements
Associated data management and process optimization
Leverage the information management to include reporting needs at departmental level
Avoid possible constraints and conflicts– what we are what we aren't
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Act as an interface between IT and business
An accelerator when organizing your projects
An external advisor on CRD IV implementation matters
A general and firm wide consultancy company
A way to avoid internal involvement
A competitor to your IT department

4. General principles
FOCUS AREAS THE APPROACH WE WOULD BE CONCENTRATING ON
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Governance
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Data architecture and IT infrastructure
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Design, build and maintenance of an information management architecture which fully supports
existing risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting
Establish integrated data taxonomies and architecture across legal entities (where appropriate),
which includes information on the characteristics of the data (metadata)
Accuracy, integrity, completeness and timeliness
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The risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting practices should be fully documented and
subject to high standards of validation.
Roles and responsibilities should be established as they relate to the ownership and quality of risk
data and information for both the business and IT functions.
Support the generation of accurate and reliable risk data to meet required reporting needs on a
largely automated basis so as to minimize the probability of errors.
Where there is reliance on manual processes and EUC applications (e.g. spreadsheets,
databases), it should have effective mitigation in place.
Adaptability
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Ability to generate aggregate (risk) data to meet a broad range of on-demand, ad hoc (risk and
financial) management- and EBA reporting requests, including requests during stress/crisis
situations.

5. Coverage of project management steps
KEY DELIVERABLES AND SEQUENCE OF DELIVERY APPROACH
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Step I - scoping
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Workshop documents and presentation
for scoping.
Workshop minutes with decisions point on
scope.
Step II – “as is” assessment
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Inventory of existing organization and
technical components
Step III – “could be” definition
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Possible target architecture
Suggested process improvements
Inventory of technical components to
change
Inventory of process components to adopt
Assessment of impact on organization
Step IV – workload estimation
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Change workload estimation by
component
Transition and go live Workload
estimation
Step V – project planning
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Estimation of project size
High-level project planning
Risk analysis

6. A combination of three types of talent required
DIFFERENT SKILLS COMBINED IN A SINGLE PERSON / PROVIDER
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The skills set include
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The project management and business consulting part
The technical integration and delivery of data services (data quality, ETL, data mart design…)
The ad-hoc provision of specialty services for annex challenges (business requirements gathering,
steering committee, impact analysis / change request, technology or component selection…)
From a setup perspective, we suggest an approach that will allow to:
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Dispose of a full and detailed cartography of the existing process
For each process, dispose of a detailed description, as well as a centralized documentation
Identify clearly the dependencies between the processes
Identify weaknesses and strengths
Global picture
• Scoping of
assignment
• Approach and
expected outcome
• Internal organization
• List of processes and
contact persons
Cartography
• Meet process owner
• Gather existing
documentation
• Identify sources
• Identify outputs
• Identify
dependencies
• SII specific
documentation
Assessment
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Completeness
Track changes
Performance
Automation
Data traceability
Reusability
Integration
Historization
Recommendation
• Process
improvement
• Prioritization
• Documentation
• Fill the gap
• Technology
alternatives and
rationale

7. Total coverage of consulting skills
A MODULAR APPROACH TO FILL GAPS WHERE NECESSARY
Enable transparent and efficient
decision support
Regulatory, financial and
analytical reporting
functions
Information
Management
Organize and store
processed data
Quantification
Compute risk ratios
and capital
calculations
Information
Management
Ensure collection of
required data
Information
Management
Cleanse and organize
underlying data
Information
Management
Store and historize
data sets
methodically
Transactional data
Q u a lity
Calculation
results data
mart
Transparency
A reliable reporting
platform to ensure full
traceability
H i s t o ri zat io n
Ensure
consistency
across ratios and
KxI's across the
enterprise
Identify required data across
sources
Ensure satisfactory level of
data quality
ETL, normalization, data quality
Business data model
Reconcile transactional with financial
information
Risk calculation engine
Centralize a single view on underlying
data
Risk data warehouse

8. Role of role risk reporting project coordinator
WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER MANAGING YOUR PROJECT WITH B&D?
To secure, fasten and shorten the CRD IV project delivery cycle, B&D is proposing
project management services
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Advantage of the role toward classical project manager role
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Contribute towards co-ordination of regulatory consulting effort across multiple banks
Keep manager informed and up-to-date on individual pieces of work and share information
across the different teams
Identify issue opportunities when presented and from time to time support our sales teams as
and when required on presales assignments or RFP assistance.
Overlook delivery assignments and projects and work closely with colleagues on projects to reengineer systems and processes and prepare for changes in regulations
Identify the business issues and help the business to organize their effort
Benefit for CRELAN
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Respect project management methodology while leveraging business knowledge
Deep mutual understanding between IT and Business
Economy of scale between a project manager and a functional analyst

9. Ingrid Verdure
Business Development Executive
EMEA Risk Practice
ingrid.verdure@businessdecision.com
 +32 (0)490 44 63 87