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Monitoring and Analysing Risk in Credit

The logic

Your models, your reporting and your agents are only as good as the data layer they are built on.

Monarc keeps the record and the logic behind it, so everything else can rest on it — covenant testing, portfolio analytics, agent workflows, and your valuation engine.

Data is audit ready, consistent, restated to your definitions, and immediately explainable.

What's at stake

Private credit is under scrutiny like never before.

Supervisors want greater transparency, and the ability to model private credit portfolios across several dimensions at once. The data infrastructure most managers run was never built to carry that.

Monarc builds that base. Portfolios can be stressed across every dimension supervisors ask about, and every figure traces back to its source — so every number holds when it is challenged.

NAV impact (%) Variables: EBITDA · Credit spread
Credit spread (bps) across, EBITDA (%) down
−500+100+200+300
0%+0.90.0−2.2−4.8−7.9
−10%−0.6−1.7−4.4−7.7−11.8
−20%−2.5−4.1−8.6−13.4−19.1
−30%−4.9−7.1−14.0−21.4−29.7

Fragmented data hides credit risk nobody has measured.

Investors want to establish the units of value behind an allocation strategy, and where the hidden risk actually sits. Fragmentation and inconsistency across systems keep exposure out of view: undetected, rather than accepted and priced.

Monarc captures units of risk all the way down to asset and security level, and returns one clear, comprehensive and coherent picture of credit exposure. Investors can optimise how risk is allocated; managers can differentiate a strategy, and defend it to the people funding it.

How hidden credit risk exposure builds up

The structure of the market is changing.

Semi-liquid, evergreen funds are marketed to far broader audiences than traditional closed-end structures ever reached, and they demand an entirely different set of data operations and infrastructure.

Two things change at once. The NAV becomes a transaction price rather than a report, and capital arrives and leaves continuously rather than on a drawdown schedule. Both put weight on the same place: a record that is sourced, defensible and current.

Marking frequency
Closed-end · 4 marks Evergreen · 12 marks Monarc · ongoing
NAV Q1Q2Q3Q4

Monarc reduces NAV lag from a quarter to a day, whatever the structure.

AI in private credit is a domain problem before it is a technology problem.

Most firms have pilots. Few have anything a valuation committee would take a number from — let alone an auditor.

The gap is not model quality. Credit is the hard case and closing that gap is two years of work — the ingestion, the restatement, the lineage, the harness. It needs people who know credit as well as they know production systems. That is where we start. And what comes out is yours: you are not licensing someone else’s judgement, you are encoding your own, at scale.

The harness
Scope

“These four agreements govern the borrower.”

└retrieval fixed to the documents in force for this position, at this date
Precedent

“We took this add-back at 2.1m last quarter. Here is the reasoning.”

└your prior decisions loaded as ground truth, not re-argued each time
Validation

“Trace to the clause, and tie the number back to last quarter.”

└every number carries its source and reconciles to prior period
Escalation

“If the drafting is ambiguous, flag it — that is a question, not an answer.”

└below the confidence threshold you set, nothing is answered without sign-off
Consistent answers, sourced and explained.

One record. One logic. Every number explained in seconds.

A governed record of what your borrowers reported and what it means under your methodology — the version of the numbers every team and every system in your firm agrees on.

No more asking which version is right.

In

Every source the credit already lives in

Management accounts and covenant certificates, data rooms, loan tapes, credit memos and financial models — all aggregated into one coherent record.

The record

Your logic, held with the record

Two things stay true at once: what the documents say, and how your firm calculates it.

Captured
Exactly as reported. Never overwritten, never smoothed, never lost.
Restated
To the definition in the agreement — add-backs, cures, step-downs, the nuances that decide whether a covenant is met.
Aligned
To your taxonomy, so your derived metrics, your models and your valuations all sit on top of it.
Out

Into what you already use

Monarc keeps your Excel models in sync. It gives your agents and valuation engine trusted numbers. Investor and regulatory reporting is clearer and defensible. All immediately usable, throughout the organisation, with no lock-in.

The product

What Monarc does.

Portfolio data, restated to your firm’s definitions. One governed flow from what your borrowers send to the numbers your firm acts on. Excel-native, with every number one click from its source.

01 — READ

It reads what your borrowers send

Management accounts, covenant certificates, spreadsheets, PDFs. Whatever arrives, in whatever shape it arrives in. Nothing has to be put into a template first.

02 — RESTATE

Everything restated to your definitions

Every figure is mapped twice: to the definition in the credit agreement, then to the way your firm calculates it. Your analysts’ knowledge, embedded in the firm’s infrastructure.

03 — DELIVER

It puts the result where you already work

Into your models, your reporting and your existing systems. Click any number and the document it came from is one click away.

How Monarc is different
01 / 07

We only focus on Private Credit.

Borrowers do not file standardised accounts, and every credit agreement defines its terms differently. Everyone restates to the agreement. Monarc goes one step further: every figure is also mapped to the way your firm calculates it — your add-backs, your treatment of a cure, your house view on what counts.

02 / 07

Architecture and operations unique to us.

We put analysts, not systems, at the centre. Excel was never the problem: the models your team already runs are the right place for the work. So we invert the traditional flow — instead of extracting into a portal and exporting to a spreadsheet afterwards, your financial analysts edit in Excel as they always have. The change lands in the Monarc Hub, so numbers are always consistent and up to date.

03 / 07

Work that gets done.

Repetitive execution that moves off your desk and onto the harness, not to another team. Every step runs against your definitions, inside your systems, with a full audit trail — so you keep visibility and control, and your analysts keep the judgement rather than mundane work.

04 / 07

It elevates your work.

Monarc runs on your methodology and your decisions, so it improves every quarter — which covenant could breach, how your credit committee treats an add-back, which borrowers file late. Your team gets better work out of it, and the firm keeps what it has learned.

05 / 07

Nothing gets displaced.

Your systems stay where they are. The record reaches your warehouse by API, your models in Excel, your valuation engine, your reporting — with no lock-in, and immediately usable.

06 / 07

The firm owns what it knows.

Your methodology stops being something a few people carry and becomes something the firm holds — written down, applied consistently, and available to everyone who needs it.

07 / 07

Agents that work the way your analysts do.

Monarc enables you to build your own agents, that apply the same definitions your analysts do. Build as many as you need and put them to work alongside the team — your capacity is no longer constrained by how many people are in your team.

See how it works →

These challenges need private credit knowledge and technical depth in the same room.

Systems that run on a schedule, under load, with an audit trail, built by people who also know what a springing test is, why a stub period matters, and where an add-back stops being permitted.

What we have built, in production

Credit-Vision

Covenant and performance monitoring for institutional credit funds: hundreds of issuers, tens of billions of exposure. Metrics restated twice — to the definition in the credit agreement, then to the one each manager actually runs.

Alter Domus Data Solutions

Borrower, portfolio and fund data pipelines built and operated at administrator scale. Serving GPs and LPs from the same record means reconciling what each side believes it holds — where they disagree is where the operational risk sits.

Morgan Stanley

Firm-wide valuation, risk and stress-testing models owned end to end, and the RWA calculations for fixed income structured products behind regulatory reporting and capital management.

Vestige

Retrieval systems for document review and on-premise agents for workflow automation, turning recurring processes into versioned, auditable pipelines.

Start with the problem you need to solve today.

Most of our work begins with something specific: a valuation methodology being questioned, a pressure point on investor reporting, a system of record with data that don’t reconcile, or a team being overwhelmed with portfolio monitoring crunch points.

Get in touch, tell us what the problem is and we’ll present the solution we can offer to you.

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