Chris Stanley

Senior Director – Americas Banking Industry Practice Lead

Across 15 years as a consultant and practitioner, Chris worked on a range of strategy, risk management and operational transformation initiatives with leading financial institutions throughout North America. From this collection of abstract, “what now?” challenges, he has developed specialties in credit optimization, business combinations and system implementations. Chris joined Moody’s in 2020 after leading CECL implementation and dual risk rating expansion at a $50 billion bank.

education

Tulane University: Master of Accounting

Tulane University: Bachelor of Science in Management

Expertise

solutions

Credit Assessment: Automating the process of financial spreading and credit scoring increases loan application volume and helps lenders make better credit decisions.

Credit Decisioning: Our commercial lending solutions are flexible and robust enough to support whatever loan structures, pricing, or conditions you require to reduce risk.

Current Expected Credit Loss Model (CECL): Moody’s Analytics provides tools for the most crucial aspects of the expected loss impairment model, with robust solutions to aggregate data, calculate expected credit losses, and derive and report provisions.

Portfolio Optimization: Quantify diversification benefits across portfolios and define risk types that inform risk management and active asset allocation decisions.

Valuation : Moody's Analytics insurance valuation solution support valuing liabilities of complex insurance products that contain options and guarantees.

TOPICS

Asset Valuation: Process of determining the fair market or present value of assets using book values.

Credit Correlations: Measurement of whether risky assets are more likely to default together or separately.

Default & Recovery Risk: Risks following a default event where the defaulting entity's contracts cannot be honored.

Economic Forecasts: Forecasts potential economic outcomes on the performance of businesses and investments.

Enterprise Risk: Business strategy to identify, assess, and prepare for any dangers to a firm's operations.

Loss Accounting: CECL: New credit loss accounting standard that replaces the current ALLL accounting standard.

Portfolio Models: Models that enable portfolio managers to assess and optimize portfolio risk.

Risk Integration: Bringing together credit and market risk modeling to better understand asset and liability dynamics over time.

Published Work

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