Risk-Adjusted Bank and NBFC Operations Beyond Cost-to-Income Ratios

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional cost-to-income ratios for banks and non-banking finance companies provide limited information on structural efficiency, operational risk exposure, non-interest cost management, operational resilience, and sustainable profitability, failing to account for resource utilization and risk-adjusted performance.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for assessing risk-adjusted operational efficiency by decomposing business operations into processes, identifying resources and costs, determining resource utilization rates, and calculating risk-adjusted process efficiency scores, allowing for improved resource allocation and operational resilience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional cost-to-income ratio is used to measure cost efficiency, then calculation simplicity is maintained, but information completeness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecalculation simplicityVSAvoidinformation completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the cost-to-income ratio into multiple components including fixed costs, variable costs, process-level costs, and risk-adjusted costs. This segmentation allows detailed analysis of cost structures while maintaining the overall ratio framework, thereby preserving information completeness without sacrificing calculation simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces additional dimensions to the traditional cost-to-income ratio by incorporating risk adjustments, process-level breakdowns, and resource utilization metrics. This transforms the single-dimension ratio into a multi-dimensional assessment framework that provides comprehensive information while maintaining ease of calculation through structured methodologies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If detailed process analysis is implemented to improve measurement precision, then information completeness improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides banking operations into discrete processes and activities, assigning costs and risk metrics to each segment. This segmentation enables precise measurement of operational efficiency at granular levels while managing system complexity through modular analysis frameworks that can be implemented incrementally.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements detailed process analysis selectively, focusing on high-impact areas such as risk-adjusted cost measurement and resource utilization assessment. By applying detailed analysis only where most beneficial rather than uniformly across all operations, the system achieves high measurement precision without proportionally increasing overall complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250307743A1Systems and methods for assessing operations, risk-adjusted operational efficiency, risk-adjusted operating effectiveness, and risk-adjusted operating leverage of banks and non-banking finance companies
Publication Date: 2025.10.02 RAMAKRISHNAN KANNAN SUBRAMANIAN
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AI summary

Methods for determining risk-adjusted metrics are presented including a risk-adjusted process efficiency score, a risk adjusted process-based, enterprise-operating-model efficiency score, a risk-and-resource-utilization-adjusted, process-based enterprise-operating-model efficiency score, a risk-and-resource-utilization-adjusted, process-based enterprise-operating-model effectiveness score, and a risk-adjusted operating leverage. In addition, a method for assessing non-interest costs of a bank or non-banking finance company utilizing time-driven costs of resources for performance of the processes of the bank or non-banking finance company is presented.