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MODEL ANALYSIS AND STRESS TESTING

Prove your models work, quarter after quarter.

ARCSys Model Analysis back-tests actual results against model predictions, benchmarks against peers, and runs sensitivity analysis to show your models hold up over time. The same framework drives stress testing, running your portfolio through adverse economic scenarios to quantify the capital and earnings impact before examiners ask.

Back-tests and stress tests run on the same loans, forecasts, and pools as your allowance, so stress results agree with the numbers your board already sees.

Know your breaking point before the examiner does.
BACK-TEST · FORECAST VS ACTUALBENCHMARK · VS PEERS
SENSITIVITY · KEY ASSUMPTIONSSTRESS · CAPITAL AND EARNINGS
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BACK-TESTINGBENCHMARKINGSENSITIVITY ANALYSISSTRESS TESTING

Model performance should be monitored continuously, not reconstructed in a scramble before the exam.

Ongoing proof, not a one-time exercise

ARCSys makes model monitoring routine, and reuses the forecasts and segmentation already built for your allowance so stress results stay consistent with the CECL and ALM numbers your board already sees.

Illustrative example
BENCHMARK · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Coverage · 1.18%
NCO · −18% QoQ
Allowance · +2.8%
Your institutionSimilar institutions · range
Shown as context · documented separately✓

Benchmarking

Compare your allowance, loss rates, and assumptions against institutions of similar size and portfolio mix.

Illustrative example
PREDICTED VS ACTUAL · LOSS BY POOL
Indirect auto
Office CRE
Residential 1–4
HELOC
C&I
PredictedActual

Back-testing

Measure forecast loss and prepayment rates against actual results across short- and long-term horizons.

Illustrative example
WHAT MOVED THE ALLOWANCE · +$412K
Indirect auto · slower prepayment+$268K
Office CRE · 3 downgrades+$121K
Forecast · unemployment up+$23K
$14.74M → $15.16M · coverage 1.15% → 1.18%+2.8%

Sensitivity analysis

Quantify how the allowance moves when key assumptions, forecasts, or prepayment speeds shift.

Illustrative example
SCENARIO FAN · BASELINE TO SEVERE
BaselineAdverseSevere

Scenario modeling

Run multiple economic scenarios side by side, from baseline through severe recession.

Illustrative example
CAPITAL IMPACT · 9-QUARTER HORIZON
Baseline
Adverse
Severe
Cumulative provision · relative
Earnings and capital ratios · each quarter✓

Capital impact

Translate adverse-scenario losses into capital and earnings impact for board and ALCO reporting.

Illustrative example
MONITORING REPORT READY
01 Back-test summary
02 Sensitivity and benchmark context
03 Scenario and capital results
04 Methodology and assumptions

Audit-ready reporting

Documented, traceable output for examiners and auditors, generated on demand every quarter.

ONE MODEL. MULTIPLE AUDIENCES.

From monitoring to stress test.

Board-ready summaries and examiner-ready detail from the same run, with consistent assumptions, severity you define, and defensible documentation.

01
BACK-TEST

Forecast loss and prepayment rates measured against actuals.

02
BENCHMARK

Allowance, loss rates, and assumptions compared with similar institutions.

03
TEST SENSITIVITY

How the allowance moves when key assumptions shift.

04
REPORT

Routine monitoring reports instead of a pre-exam scramble.

01
CONSISTENT ASSUMPTIONS

Stress scenarios draw on the same economic covariates and segmentation as your CECL and ALM models.

02
SEVERITY YOU DEFINE

Rate shocks, localized CRE stress, prolonged unemployment, and the scenarios that matter to your footprint.

03
QUANTIFY THE IMPACT

Adverse-scenario losses translated into capital and earnings impact.

04
DEFENSIBLE DOCUMENTATION

Every input, assumption, and calculation traceable under examiner scrutiny.

[STRESS TESTING]

Know your breaking point before the examiner does.

Stress testing reuses the forecasts and segmentation already built for your allowance, so adverse-scenario results stay consistent with the CECL and ALM numbers your board already sees. One model, multiple audiences: board-ready summaries and examiner-ready detail from the same run.

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BACK-TEST · FORECAST VS ACTUAL LOSS RATEAnnualized · trailing eight quarters0.0%0.2%0.4%0.6%0.8%Q4 24Q1Q2Q3Q4 25Q1Q2Q3 26ForecastActualError band
BACK-TEST OF FORECAST LOSS RATE AGAINST ACTUALS, WITH THE FORECAST ERROR BAND
WHO IT IS FOR

Built for every seat
at the table

[OPERATING USER]

CECL owners, model-risk, and finance teams

Monitoring that is routine, with the analysis ready when the question arrives.

[CFO AND CRO]

Capital and earnings impact before the examiner asks

Adverse scenarios quantified on the same basis as the allowance and ALM.

[BOARD AND ALCO]

Summaries from the same run as the detail

Board-ready output that reconciles to the examiner-ready detail.

Talk through model analysis with an ARCSys specialist

Bring last quarter's back-test, or the scenario your board keeps asking about.