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Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices around the world, employs 20,000 people and has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide.
For further information about Barclays Capital, please visit our website www.barclayscapital.com
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KPMG’s Financial Risk Management practice aims to help clients optimise their
risk portfolios, enhance business performance and transform regulatory
compliance into a key value driver.
We work alongside clients, helping them to:
• improve risk management’s contribution to the attainment of strategic and
business goals, enhancing shareholder value and reducing capital requirements
• assess existing risk management capabilities, including benchmarking
performance and procedures
• develop tools to measure, monitor and report on financial risk issues
• implement new regulatory requirements and streamline financial licence
applications
• conduct compliance health checks to reduce the risk of regulatory breaches,
excessive compliance costs and the unnecessary diversion of management resources
into compliance matters
• evaluate compliance systems and practices against industry best practice
• develop relevant compliance, measuring, monitoring and reporting tools.
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Moody’s Analytics is a leading provider of research, data, analytic tools and related services to debt capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide. The company’s products and services provide the means to assess and manage the credit risk of individual exposures as well as portfolios; price and value holdings of debt instruments; analyze macroeconomic trends; and enhance customers’ risk management skills and practices. Moody’s Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2007, employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 29 countries. Additional information about the company is available at www.moodys.com.
Numerix is the leading analytics institution providing cross-asset solutions for structuring, pre-trade price discovery, trade capture, valuation and portfolio management of derivatives and structured products.
Since its inception in 1996, more than 375 financial institutions and 45 partners across 25 countries rely on Numerix analytics for speed and accuracy in valuing and managing the most sophisticated financial instruments. With offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Numerix brings together unparalleled expertise across all asset classes and engineering disciplines.
Founded in 1985, Sophis is a leading provider of cross-asset trade and risk management solutions for capital markets, corporate and insurance companies. The company has a global presence with 11 offices around the world. Sophis serves over 5,000 users in 130 market-leading institutions, including investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and insurance companies with its two solutions, RISQUE, dedicated to the sell-side, and VALUE, dedicated to the buy-side. In July 2007, the Private Equity fund Advent International acquired a majority stake in Sophis.
About SOPHIS RISQUE
RISQUE is a cross-asset trade and risk management solution that enables investment banks to implement a true Straight Through Processing all along their trading activity. The combination of wide instrument coverage, high performance, open and flexible architecture, and user friendliness makes RISQUE a unique global system used by more than a third of the top 25 world banks.
About SOPHIS VALUE
VALUE is a cross-asset portfolio and risk management solution dedicated to the buy-side made of four integrated modules: front office; risk management; middle/back office; and data management. It provides sell-side level financial and technological capabilities with the user-friendliness, connectivity and ease of implementation required by the buy-side. VALUE has been adopted by more than 80 institutions worldwide, from start-up hedge funds to global asset management companies.
For more information, please visit our website: www.sophis.net
STOXX Ltd. is a joint venture between Deutsche Börse AG, Dow Jones & Company and SIX Swiss Exchange AG. Launched in 1998, in advance of the completion of the European Monetary Union, the introduction of the Euro and the creation of the Eurozone, the Dow Jones STOXX indices became Europe’s leading equity indices in a fast and impressive success story. By consistently responding to market requirements, STOXX Ltd. further expanded its strategy beyond Europe. Together with Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Ltd. operates as a globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets – developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices. These are licensed to more than 800* companies around the world as the basis for investment products.
