Recent mandates across Europe & the GCC

End-to-end regulatory advisory delivered to G-SIBs and Tier-One banks. From Basel IV implementation to ECB inspections to stress testing — we own the delivery and the outcomes.

50+
G-SIB and Tier-One mandates delivered since 2020
6
Countries — France, UK, Germany, UAE, KSA, Qatar
0
Supervisory escalations across every Ezelman engagement
20+ yrs
Senior practitioner experience on every mandate — no junior layers
Regulatory

Basel IV / CRR3 Group-Wide Programme

3-year full programme ownership of the preparation and implementation of CRR3 across credit and counterparty risks for a European G-SIB — from Norms and Advocacy to Gap Assessment, Data Management, Build and Adaptations, Simulations and Models, Permanent Control and Independent Review, across all geographies.

Scope: Group-wide Duration: 36 months
ECB On-Site

Credit Risk IRB Inspection & Remediation

Led ECB on-site inspection on IRB RWA calculation for a EU G-SIB — from preparation to managing all supervisor interactions, data requests, and findings resolution.

Scope: IRB Models Outcome: 0 critical findings
Stress Testing

EBA EU-Wide Stress Tests — Multiple Exercises

Repeat engagement across several EBA EU-wide stress test cycles for a European G-SIB — including the two most demanding of the last decade: the FTA of IFRS 9 (2018) and the FTA of CRR3 (2025). End-to-end: methodology, credit / market / operational aggregation, supervisory submission and live EBA challenge.

Scope: All risk types Flagship cycles: FTA IFRS 9 · FTA CRR3
Benchmark Reform

IBOR Transition Programme

End-to-end management of the IBOR transition for a French Bank — 50,000+ contracts remediated across all asset classes, system migration, and full regulatory engagement for all discontinued benchmarks.

Scope: All Asset Classes Duration: 24 months
Regulatory Programme

Permanent Partial Use (PPU) Roll-Out

Designed and implemented the framework for determining the applicable regulatory approach (A-IRB, F-IRB, SA) and prepared the Permanent Partial Use (PPU) application package for credit risk across all types of exposures. Four exposure classes notified under CRR Art. 494d: Sovereigns and assimilated, RGLA, PSE.

Scope: Group-wide Duration: 6 months Outcome: ECB notification package submitted

The Ezelman playbook — one per mandate type

Every mandate below is delivered under one of five acronym protocols. They are not slideware. They are the operating grammar senior CROs and CFOs now quote back to us.

PRISM

The operating grammar

Partner-led · Regulatory intent · Integrated view · Supervisor-ready · Measured. The five letters behind every Ezelman engagement.

DELIVERY

Regulatory programmes

Diagnose · Engage · Lead · Implement · Validate · Embed · Report · Yield. Eight pillars for CRR3, IRB, PPU and approval-package mandates.

FORTRESS

On-site inspections

Foundations · Open dialogue · Readiness drill · Taxonomy · Response line · Evidence vault · Supervisory narrative · Sustain.

ANCHOR

Stress testing

Assemble · Normalise · Classify · Harmonise · Own · Review · +Defend. Seven pillars that defend the starting point, the scenarios and the challenge session.

SCALE

Risk & finance transformation

Sunset · Consolidate · Automate · Leverage · Elevate. Five sequential rungs. Skip one — the whole programme collapses back to compliance plumbing.

How we use them

Not templates

These are sequencing tools, not deliverables. Each mandate's case study below names the protocol we applied and the decisions it forced.

CRR3 · GROUP-WIDE PROGRAMME
"3-year full programme ownership of the preparation and implementation of CRR3 across credit and counterparty risks — from Norms and Advocacy to Gap Assessment, Data Management, Build and Adaptations, Simulations and Models, Permanent Control and Independent Review, across all geographies."
Group Head of Model and Regulatory European G-SIB
ECB ON-SITE INSPECTION
"Their on-site inspection expertise is practical, senior, and effective. They don't advise from the sidelines — they sit with you in the room, negotiate with the inspector, and own the findings line by line."
Group Head of Model and Regulatory European G-SIB
PPU ROLL-OUT · CRR ART. 494d
"Designed and implemented the framework for determining the applicable regulatory approach (A-IRB, F-IRB, SA) and prepared the Permanent Partial Use (PPU) roll-out application package for credit risk across all types of exposures — including Sovereigns and assimilated, RGLA and PSE notification packs under CRR Art. 494d."
Group Programme Director European G-SIB

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