Sponsors

Principal Knowledge Partner

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm helping many of the world's leading organizations improve strategies, organizations and operations. For nearly eight decades, the company's primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organization's most trusted external adviser on critical issues facing senior management. McKinsey is dedicated to helping clients make distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance.

McKinsey has 83 offices in 45 countries worldwide. Its approximately 8,200 consultants are citizens of over one hundred countries. As an institution privately owned by its partners, McKinsey remains completely independent.
www.mckinsey.com 

Lead Sponsors

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 & 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.

SAS continues to evolve and develop its robust risk solutions to best help banks establish and manage their governance and performance management processes. Through its integrated risk platform – which facilitates enterprisewide risk information sharing, produces a variety of risk measures and captures process-generated intellectual knowledge – SAS has become the industry’s preferred risk management technology provider, and will continue to strive to help financial institutions better manage and capture the risk/reward process.
 
Based on the success of existing SAS® risk management technology, our next-generation offering will deliver a scalable, configurable design that supports current market requirements for risk management applications and provides a platform for meeting future needs as well.

To learn more and access free Webcasts on financial risk management, please visit www.sas.com.

Moody’s Analytics is the credit analytics and economic insight arm of Moody’s Corporation, comprising the operations of Moody’s KMV and Moody’s Economy.com, and the research and analytic products pioneered by Moody’s Investors Service. We serve clients in more than 80 countries, including most of the world's 100 largest financial institutions. Our integrity and deep market expertise have earned us the trust of capital market participants worldwide.

By providing solutions across a full range of risk management activities, Moody's Analytics helps clients enhance the economic returns of their businesses. We create products and services based upon a sophisticated application of modern financial theory and statistical analysis. Our ability to integrate data, models, research and professional advice into a cohesive and integrated platform for risk management helps our clients earn better returns on the risks they take.

Moody’s Analytics is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the globe to meet the demands of a wide range of clients, including the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions.

Technology Sponsor

Teradata is the acknowledged global leader in data warehouse innovation and analytical solution development. Every day we raise our customers’ intelligence to higher levels, making them more focused and competitive by gathering enterprise information and extracting actionable insight.
 
Teradata elevates enterprise intelligence by giving every decision maker the insight required for smarter, faster decisions. We add value and reveal opportunity across more dimensions than any competing solution.
 
In every industry and geography, our technologies and expertise make the difference. Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive advantage to win. To learn more, go to teradata.com.

Associate Sponsors

PricewaterhouseCoopers' business advisory professionals provide clients with the confidence to succeed by helping them anticipate, create and manage change. Whether clients are proactively implementing change or reacting to an unplanned event, we leverage our Firm's resources, deep industry experience, and functional acumen across the areas of operations, finance, organizational strategy and structure, process improvement, human resources optimization, technology integration and implementation, risk mitigation and crisis management to help organizations effect sustainable change.  For more information, visit us at www.pwc.com/us/advisory.

“PricewaterhouseCoopers” refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.

Eurex, the International Derivatives Exchange

Eurex is one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges offering global electronic access to a broad range of international benchmark products and operating the most liquid fixed income markets. With the acquisition of International Securities Exchange (ISE) in December 2007, the world's largest equity options exchange, Eurex significantly expanded its liquidity network into the U.S. Together, Eurex and ISE are the global market leaders in individual equity and equity index derivatives.

Aside from operating a fully electronic trading platform, Eurex provides an automated and integrated clearing house. Eurex Clearing is one of the world's leading clearing houses, offering fully automated and straight-through post trade services for derivatives, equities, repo, energy and fixed income transactions. Eurex Clearing acts as a buyer to all sellers and as a seller to all buyers thereby minimizing counterparty risk and maximizing operational efficiency. The product offering comprises flexible trade management functions, OTC clearing facilities, advanced risk management services, efficient collateral and delivery management tools. Eurex Clearing serves more than 120 clearing members located in 12 European countries and manages a collateral pool of approximately EUR 55 billion.

Breakfast Briefing Sponsor

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables our clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides our clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working—the Collaborative Business Experience—and through a global delivery model called Rightshore® which aims to offer the right resources in the right location at competitive cost. Present in 36 countries, Capgemini reported 2007 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 86,000 people worldwide. For more information www.capgemini.com/financialservices.

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