TRANSFORMING RISK IN A NEW WORLD ORDER

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. For more than 75 years, our mission has been to help our clients achieve distinctive, substantial, and lasting improvements in their performance. We help companies worldwide to define their strategies, strengthen their organizations, and improve their operations. Our clients include more than half of the world’s top 200 companies. In Risk Management, McKinsey acts as prime counselor to clients in all industries, developing "end-to-end" risk management with tangible business impact, on topics ranging from strategic and financial risk management to credit, market, liquidity, commercial and operational risk management. We also serve clients on issues relating to the implementation and implications of regulation and on risk organization, governance and culture. As an institution privately owned by its partners, McKinsey remains completely independent.  For more information please visit http://www.mckinsey.com/

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of USD 21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Accenture Risk Management Solutions help clients to create and implement an integrated risk management function designed to gain higher economic returns, improve shareholder value and increase stakeholder confidence in an uncertain global economy. Accenture helps companies cost-effectively align risk and reward to fuel growth and drive better business performance while also protecting the interests of shareholders and other key stakeholders. Operating globally across a wide variety of industries and functions, we provide clients with a unique combination of resources—strategic consulting, systems integration and technology delivery at scale, outsourcing and change management services—to embed risk management throughout the enterprise.

Innovations Software Technology is a global market leader in robust enterprise solutions for the financial industry and in Business Rules Management. We bring to the market many years of experience in software solutions in the areas of Credit Risk, Compliance and Relationship Management. These businesses help us to contribute to our mission, to provide our clients with an expertise to make better informed and credible decisions by meeting regulatory requirements.

As a European-based corporation, we have a seven year proven track-record of offering Basel II compliant solutions, while also empowering those who manage the risk to also manage the systems that calculate the risk in the most agile, transparent and intuitive manner possible.

Innovations’ global presence and best of breed solution has been adopted by global financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, Capital One, Volkswagen Financial Services, and Rand Merchant Bank.

The company was founded in 1997 has been a member of the Bosch Group since 2008.

Innovations’ homepage is www.innovations-software.com  

Algorithmics is the world's leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions. Algorithmics’ software, analytics, and advisory services enable financial institutions to make risk-aware business decisions, maximize shareholder value, and meet regulatory requirements. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centers, Algorithmics offers proven, award-winning solutions for market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, as well as collateral and capital management. Algorithmics is a member of the Fitch Group.

Nearly 30,000 Ernst & Young financial services professionals around the world provide integrated assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services to our asset management, banking, capital markets and insurance clients.  In the US, Ernst & Young LLP is the only public accounting firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Created in 2000, the New York City-centered Financial Services Office today includes more than 3,300 professionals in over 30 locations across the US, as well as in Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. 

The Deloitte Center for Banking Solutions helps banks innovate and improve their competitiveness in the U.S. Through research, executive dialogue, and industry benchmarking, the Center originates and incubates leading practices surrounding three core issues: Public Policy and Risk, Operational Excellence, and Growth. The Center is home to a team of bank executives, former regulators, and Deloitte professionals, with extensive experience solving the complex industry issues that both challenge and serve to differentiate. www.deloitte.com/us/bankingsolutions

Oracle Financial Services Software Limited, a majority owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, is the world leader in providing IT solutions to the financial services industry. Its range of applications software, custom solutions and consulting services enable financial institutions to cut costs, respond rapidly to market needs, enhance customer service levels and mitigate risks. Oracle Corporation, the largest enterprise software company, provides software and services that helps organizations receive the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. Oracle and Oracle Financial Services Software provide the industry's most comprehensive packaged software and services
solutions footprint for the financial services industry. www.oracle.com

As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS helps banks establish and improve governance and performance management processes. Our solutions help you share risk information across the enterprise, monitor a variety of risk measures and capture process-generated intellectual knowledge. More than 2,900 financial institutions worldwide and 96 percent of banks on the 2006 FORTUNE Global 500® rely on SAS.

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Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Asset Control provides centralized data management solutions for financial institutions worldwide.  From business-entity to firm-wide projects, Asset Control offers strategic reference and market data platforms that deliver the accuracy, consistency and relevancy firms need to reduce costs and risk, manage evolving compliance needs, and accelerate the delivery of new products and services.  Asset Control has helped some of the world’s most successful financial institutions optimize their data infrastructures, enhance decision making, and reduce data complexity.  To learn more please visit www.asset-control.com.

Spotfire's interactive information visualization and analytic solutions give users a remarkable experience for quickly and easily querying data and reporting results for superior business intelligence. From portfolio management and customer retention programs to key processes such as CRM, marketing, research, bioinformatics, yield and asset management and design for manufacturing, enterprises around the world rely on Spotfire's business analytics software to improve operational performance.  To learn more please visit http://spotfire.tibco.com/

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 92,000 people worldwide. Our highly experienced network of 400 risk professionals have executed more than 500 risk and compliance projects with 100 in Basel alone, in the last two years. Find out how we’re helping financial institutions bridge the gap between Finance and Risk at www.capgemini.com/financialservices.