Kamakura and Unisys Renew World-wide Alliance for Risk Management and Basel II Solutions
Kamakura Corporation and Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced today that their worldwide marketing alliance for the
Kamakura Risk Manager enterprise wide risk management software has been renewed for another three-year term. The
Kamakura Risk Manager system is an integrated credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management, and performance
measurement software solution. A major focus of the Unisys-Kamakura alliance is to assist clients in the implementation
of the Basel II capital requirements specified in the New Capital Accords from the Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision. The Kamakura-Unisys alliance is one of the longest-standing alliances in the risk management business.
Together the two firms have installed KRM at 11 major financial institutions around the globe.
“Macro-economic factors have driven default probabilities and financial institutions risk throughout Asia, the Americas
and Europe,” said Warren Sherman, Kamakura President and Chief Operating Officer. “The Kamakura-Unisys relationship is
built on recognition that only a fully integrated default probability and risk management system can address the risks
posed by the next crisis. Unisys and Kamakura have teamed up time and time again to bring state of the art risk
management software and systems to clients with a 100 percent success rate. We are very pleased to renew this important
relationship with Unisys.“
Prakash Thomas, Head of Risk Management; Unisys Asia-Pacific said,” This partnership brings together the combined
strengths of Unisys world-class capability in systems integration and consultancy with Kamakura’s expertise in risk
management. This joint relationship enables us to provide our clients with an enterprise-wide risk management solution
and specifically address the Basel II requirements in the marketplace.”
More information on the Kamakura Risk Manager system, first launched in 1993, and Kamakura’s approach to integrated
interest rate risk and credit risk be found on the Kamakura Corporation web site www.kamakuraco.com and in Advanced
Financial Risk Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) by Kamakura’s van Deventer, Kenji Imai, and Mark Mesler (available on www.amazon.com ). Advanced Financial
Risk Management was recently named “best finance book of 2004” on www.riskbook.com.
About Unisys Asia Pacific Unisys Asia Pacific helps clients eliminate business and IT complexity providing specialised
services delivered by trusted consultants. Drawing on a history of industry innovation and expertise, Unisys Asia
Pacific delivers services and solutions through subsidiaries in Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Korea,
Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand and through distributors or resellers in other countries in
the region.
About Unisys Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise
in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and
relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage.
For more information, visit www.unisys.com.
About Kamakura Corporation Kamakura Corporation is a leading provider of risk management information, processing and
software. Kamakura has been a provider of daily default probabilities for listed companies since November, 2002.
Kamakura launched its private firm modeling product in January 2004. Kamakura is also the first company in the world to
develop and install a fully integrated credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management, and transfer pricing
system. Kamakura has clients ranging in size from $3 billion in assets to $1 trillion in assets. Kamakura’s risk
management software is currently used in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and
many other countries in Asia.
Kamakura’s research effort is led by Professor Robert Jarrow, who was named Financial Engineer of the Year in 1997 by
the International Association of Financial Engineers. Professor Jarrow and Dr. van Deventer were both named to the 50
member RISK Hall of Fame in December 2002. Kamakura management has published twenty-one books and more than 100
publications on credit risk, market risk, and asset and liability management. Kamakura has world-wide distribution
alliances with IPS-Sendero (www.ips-sendero.com) and Unisys (www.unisys.com), making Kamakura products available in
almost every major city around the globe.