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DOI: Elastic Computational Grids for Real-Time Value at Risk (VaR) in Large-Scale Portfolio Management
Janardhan Reddy Chejarla , Independent Researcher, USAAbstract
The current financial regulatory frameworks, specifically the ‘Fundamental Review of the Trading Book’ (FRTB), require almost real-time disclosure of Expected Shortfall and Value at Risk measures of heterogeneous portfolios of equities, fixed-income securities, and complex over-the-counter derivatives. Switching from batch-based reporting to continuous intraday risk reporting poses significant computational challenges, especially when dealing with portfolios of over 100,000 positions with nonlinear sensitivities. This article introduces the Decentralized Risk Computation Grid (DRCG), a cloud-native design that uses stateful orchestration and sensitivity-aware sharding to decentralize portfolio decomposition to elastic worker clusters. In contrast to the classical stateless parallel models, the DRCG uses a warm-cache worker pattern that avoids unnecessary market data loading cycles, and tail latency is significantly lower, and yet deterministic recovery is achieved in the event of node failures. The framework is horizontally scalable, with sensitivity-based portfolio decomposition formalized mathematically and Byzantine fault-tolerance principles, without affecting audit compliance or data consistency. Empirical confirmation in distributed settings shows that state-conscious orchestration offers the resilience required in systemic risk surveillance in times of high market volatility and stress.
Zenodo DOI:- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18875781
Keywords
Distributed Risk Computation, Financial Infrastructure, Expected Shortfall, State-Aware Orchestration, Sensitivity-Based Sharding
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