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Borrowing PASS/FAIL Decision with Mitigation Criteria

October 2014

business-rulesfinancial-services

A bank needs a PASS/FAIL decision for new borrowings, with mitigating criteria that can turn a FAIL into a PASS.

Rule 1: New borrowings cannot exceed 30% of total assets — unless the executive committee flag is “Y” and the committee’s exposure override percentage is higher than the new-borrowings-to-total-assets ratio, in which case it PASSes anyway.

Rule 2: New borrowings cannot exceed the “1-4 Threshold” — unless the new borrowing amount is less than the customer’s available non-repo collateral, in which case it PASSes anyway.

Test data

CustomerTotal AssetsExec. Committee FlagExec. Committee Override1-4 ThresholdNon-Repo Collateral
#200 ABC Bank20,000,000Y35%1,000,0002,500,000
#500 Bank One50,000,000N0%3,000,0003,250,000

Build a decision model that evaluates both customers correctly, and show what would need to change in the mitigation rules to flip a FAILing transaction to PASS.

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