Deutsche Bank is poised to start using a highly scalable
new global platform for credit risk and regulatory
reporting.
The in-house developed system, called dbArtos, should offer a
long-term solution to meet the bank’s regulatory reporting
obligations and improve the speed and quality of its data analysis
by reducing a reliance on spreadsheets among users across its
international offices.
The dbArtos platform has a front-end business intelligence
reporting capability from MicroStrategy and an Oracle 10g back end
running on IBM Power architecture.
It has been designed to take and load data feeds from all of the
bank’s source systems, including reference data, and is capable of
transforming feed data to produce outputs that meet global
reporting standards.
Deutsche Bank began developing dbArtos last year when there were
signs that its existing warehouse technology was close to reaching
the limits of its capabilities and capacity.
The bank analyses its credit risks on a monthly production
cycle, with data being loaded into the datawarehouse several times
over the course of the month for interrogation and adjustment to
ensure its accuracy.
Only once the bank is satisfied that its dataset is correct are
final reports produced for internal management reporting and
ultimately for regulatory purposes.
The dbArtos platform is set to be used by the 80 staff at the
bank’s Frankfurt head office working in risk control and risk
management. Despite the roll out their experience will not change
because the MicroStrategy front-end is the same for both old and
new systems.
dbArtos will be used in earnest for the first time at the end of
July when the bank will run it in parallel with the current system.
If all goes to plan, the older system will be switched off within a
month.
A greater level of integration between the global data feeds and
the platform should be in place before the end of the year.
Deutsche Bank’s senior vice-president of risk control, Ulrike
Andras, said this should reduce local users’ reliance on Excel for
formatting and analysis tasks.
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