ALM

Custom Financial Risk & Scenario Analysis Platform for Smarter Banking Decisions

services

Web & Mobile App

industry

Fintech

duration

3 months

country

USA

ALM

Project Overview

Scenario X is a custom financial risk and scenario analysis platform built for banks, asset managers, treasury teams, portfolio managers, credit officers, and financial analysts. At its core, the platform addresses a problem most financial institutions know well: critical decisions getting bottle-necked by fragmented spreadsheets, siloed tools, and manual risk workflows. Rather than patching together yet another layer of tools, we built Scenario X from scratch as a unified, browser-based environment. It brings scenario management, ALM analysis, Lombard credit risk, option margin analysis, portfolio optimization, and referential market data workflows into one place, with the security, governance, and scalability that enterprise finance teams actually need.

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The Challenges

Fragmented Risk Workflows
Scenario assumptions, ALM calculations, collateral risk checks, derivatives exposure, market data references, and portfolio analysis all lived in different places.
There was no connected financial view across teams or functions.
Teams were essentially working from different versions of the same picture.
Spreadsheet-Driven Processes
Heavy reliance on spreadsheets for scenario assumptions, manual calculations, and reporting meant version mismatches and manual errors were routine.
Every cycle of decision-making carried the risk of working from outdated or incorrect data.
There was no structured way to version, audit, or trace how assumptions were built.
Limited Visibility Across Teams
Risk officers, treasury teams, credit officers, analysts, and portfolio managers each needed different views of financial data.
Without a shared platform, maintaining consistent visibility across functions was nearly impossible.
Teams had no reliable way to work from the same data at the same time.
Complex Financial Calculations
The platform needed to handle serious computation: liquidity ratios, funding metrics, collateral value, LTV, market exposure, margin impact, option Greeks, notional values, portfolio allocation, and optimization outputs.
All of this had to be delivered within a fast, browser-based interface.
Performance and accuracy could not be traded off against each other.
Security and Compliance Requirements
Handling sensitive financial workflows means getting security right from the start.
The platform required strong authentication, secure API communication, tenant isolation, encryption, WAF protection, and tightly controlled user access.
None of which can be bolted on after the fact.
Scalability for Future Expansion
The client needed a modular architecture that could grow with more datasets, additional modules, and new user groups.
The system had to support expansion without requiring a full rebuild every time the scope changed.
Future-readiness had to be built into the foundation, not added later.

Our Solution

Unified Cloud-Ready Platform
We built Scenario X as a modern, cloud-ready financial risk platform that ties multiple analytical workflows together without forcing users into a single rigid interface.
Each module is designed around a specific financial function but feeds into the same platform, the same data layer, and the same access controls.
This eliminated the need for teams to jump between disconnected tools to get a complete picture.
Structured Frontend and Computation Engine
The frontend gives users dashboards, advanced data tables, visual charts, KPI cards, filters, and import/export options, the kind of outputs that actually support decisions, not just data dumps.
Behind that interface is a robust backend built on Python and FastAPI, with financial computation engines handling everything from Black-Scholes pricing to quantum-assisted portfolio optimization.
Every screen is purpose-built around what that specific user role actually needs to see and do.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Infrastructure
We built Scenario X with enterprise-level architecture from the start: single sign-on via WSO2, API gateway with Kong, Coraza WAF with OWASP CRS, tenant-based data separation, and AES-256-GCM payload encryption.
Cloud-native deployment on AWS and Google Cloud ensures reliability and scalability.
The modular service structure means new capabilities can be added without disrupting what is already running.

Features Implemented

Scenario X includes a comprehensive set of features designed for financial risk analysis, scenario management, portfolio optimization, and much more.

1. Secure SSO-Based Login

We built the login experience around organization-based single sign-on, authenticated through the institution's own identity provider. This is more than a UX decision. It means every user entering the platform has been verified by their organization before they ever see a single financial workflow. It also means IT teams retain full control over access without managing a separate credential system inside Scenario X.

Secure SSO-Based Login

2. Scenario Management

The Scenario Management screen gives risk teams a centralized place to manage financial stress testing scenarios. Users can see all scenarios in one list, with scenario name, category, frequency, linked assets, and creation date, and search, filter, or paginate through them. Creating new scenarios and organizing assumptions in a structured way replaces the old pattern of scattered spreadsheet-based records that were hard to version and harder to audit.

Scenario Management

3. Referential Market Data

Analysts and risk teams get direct access to financial instruments and their historical market data. Users can search by name or symbol, pull up detailed instrument records, and view historical price movement through visual charts with flexible time-range filters. Having this layer built into the platform means teams no longer need to cross-reference external data sources when building scenarios or running analysis.

Referential Market Data

4. Portfolio Optimization

This module lets portfolio managers compare classical optimization results against hybrid quantum optimization outputs side by side. Key metrics including expected return, volatility, Sharpe ratio, and position count are displayed alongside an efficient frontier chart that makes the risk-return tradeoff immediately visible. The integration with Toshiba SQBM+ brings genuine optimization capability that goes well beyond what conventional portfolio tools can offer.

Portfolio Optimization

5. Lombard Credit Overview

The Lombard Credit Overview gives credit officers a complete picture of collateral-backed lending exposure. KPIs like total market value, eligible market value, total collateral value, total credit exposure, mean max LTV, actual LTV, total shortfall, and total unsecured amount are displayed upfront. Filters for portfolio, asset class, industry, country, and currency, combined with visual widgets for allocation and concentration, make it straightforward to spot where risk is concentrated and where shortfalls are emerging.

Lombard Credit Overview

6. Lombard Credit Derivatives Portfolio

For margin and derivatives exposure, this screen surfaces the metrics that matter: net MTM, derivatives MTM, gross notional amount, net notional amount, and net initial margin. Users can switch between baseline, stress, margin, notional, AI-weighted, and DIY-weighted views depending on what they need to examine. This gives credit and risk teams a practical tool for understanding derivatives exposure without having to build it manually from raw position data.

Lombard Credit Derivatives Portfolio

7. Option Margin Optimization

This function helps users work through option strategies and see what each one means for margin exposure. Strategies are grouped into categories including bearish, bearish-bullish, bearish-neutral, bullish-neutral, and neutral, with each card showing underlying assets, direction, option type, notional value, margin impact, and a payoff-at-expiry chart. It gives users a structured way to evaluate hedging strategies without relying on separate modelling tools.

Option Margin Optimization

8. Option Margin Data Table

Where the optimization screen gives the strategic view, the data table goes row-level. Users can review strike price, maturity date, MTM baseline, Greeks, strategy, gross notional, net notional, margin rate, and initial margin for each position. Color-coded values make it easy to read positive and negative movements at a glance. For finance and risk teams that need the operational detail behind the strategy-level summaries, this is where they work.

Option Margin Data Table

9. ALM Optimization

Treasury teams use the ALM Optimization screen to assess balance sheet health across liquidity, funding, capital, and maturity dimensions. KPI cards cover LCR, NSFR, weighted LDR, NII, total RWA, CET1 ratio, Tier 1 ratio, and total capital ratio. Tabs for balance sheet, LCR, NSFR, LDR, NII, capital adequacy, and optimization let users drill into specific areas. The maturity table allows direct comparison across baseline, optimized, and applied optimization views, giving treasury a structured foundation for balance sheet decision-making.

ALM Optimization

10. ALM Trend Analysis

This screen helps leadership and finance teams see how financial metrics move over time. Section trends, waterfall analysis, and a balance sheet map give users a clear picture of what is increasing, decreasing, or holding steady across assets, liabilities, and equity. Rather than reconstructing this view from scratch each period, teams can track balance sheet patterns continuously and flag movements before they become problems.

ALM Trend Analysis

Technology Stack

Scenario X is built on a secure, cloud-native financial platform architecture using modern frontend frameworks, enterprise-grade authentication, financial computation engines, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

Frontend

React, TypeScript, Vite

Backend

UI and Styling

Tailwind CSS

PostgreSQL, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, Lucide React

Tables and Forms

TanStack Table, React Hook Form, Zod

Charts and Visualization

Zustand

File Processing and Export

SheetJS, PapaParse, ExcelJS, jsPDF, html2canvas, pptxgenjs

Backend

Python, FastAPI, Uvicorn

Database

PostgreSQL

Authentication

WSO2 Identity Server, OpenID Connect, JWT, PKCE

API Gateway

Kong

Security

Coraza WAF, OWASP CRS, AES-256-GCM Payload Encryption

Cloud and Deployment

Docker, Kubernetes, Kustomize, AWS, Google Cloud

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail

Data Services

AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS Glue, PyArrow

Financial Computation

SciPy, NumPy, Black-Scholes, CRR Binomial Model, Toshiba SQBM+ Integration

Conclusion

Scenario X transformed complex financial risk analysis into a centralized, secure, and scalable digital platform for modern financial institutions. By bringing scenario management, referential market data, portfolio optimization, Lombard credit monitoring, derivatives margin analysis, option strategy evaluation, ALM optimization, and ALM trend analysis into one connected system, we helped the client improve decision-making, reduce manual effort, strengthen operational control, and build a future-ready foundation for financial innovation.

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