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SG CIB, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Société Générale Group, serves corporate clients and investors in 45 countries. It is recognized for innovation and vast capabilities. Present on the European, US and Asian markets, SG CIB offers corporates, financial institutions and investors a tailored approach to meeting their financial needs.
SG CIB is a reference bank specialising in:- Euro capital markets. A top ten player in debt and equity segments (bonds, securitisations, syndicated loans, equity-linked and equity issues).
- Derivatives. Among the world leaders in equity derivatives and in many interest rate, credit, foreign exchange and commodities derivatives.
- Structured finance. A worldwide leader in export, project and structured commodity finance.
The Equity Derivatives platform of SG CIB is the largest in the world and is regulary recognised for its leadership and innovation.
TEMENOS is a provider of integrated modular core banking systems to over 550 financial institutions worldwide. TEMENOS software provides banks with a single, real-time view of the client across the enterprise, enabling banks to maximize returns while streamlining costs. TEMENOS provides 24/7 functionality to the wholesale, retail, private and universal banking sectors.
Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to restoring the public's trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism in providing a range of sophisticated services centered on our core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, transactions, risk and business advisory. Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Risk Management team has a network of more than 900 risk and regulatory professionals in major financial centers and key country locations across the globe.
Further information about Ernst & Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at www.ey.com/perspectives.
Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity.Ernst & Young Global Limited does not provide services to clients.
Asset Control, the leader in Centralized Data Management (CDM) solutions, offers unique solutions in the areas of market risk data management and counterparty credit risk data management.
The solutions, built on Asset Control’s AC Plus modular framework, provide the consistent, cleansed pricing data required as risk factor inputs in any market risk calculation. In addition, Asset Control’s comprehensive commodity data solutions enable standardized mark-to-market and value-at-risk processes for global market risk, trading and reporting for commodity trading.
For relationship management and risk exposure analysis, Asset Control manages cross-referenced counterparty and issuer data via its standard data model and off-the-shelf interfaces to the rating agencies and other suppliers of credit and issuer cross-reference data.
Calypso® is the only software system built from inception as an integrated, modular solution that delivers leading-edge enterprise risk management (ERS), trading, and back-office processing for all asset classes. Calypso ERS utilises Service-Orientated-Architecture (SOA), designed to meet the scalability, extensibility and deployment requirements needed to monitor key risk exposures with measures such as Value-at-Risk, stress tests and risk factor sensitivities. In 2006 Calypso awards included two first place rankings in Risk Magazine for ‘Credit Trading’ and ‘Credit Front-to-Back Office Systems’.
BBVA is one of Europe’s biggest banking groups with a total market value of €64.8 billion, total assets of €412 billion and more than 35 million customers in 32 different countries. BBVA is at the cutting edge of financial innovation, building bridges between Europe, Asia and Latin America.
BBVA has been elected the Spanish derivatives house of the year and has been named the best house in institutional structured products by the specialist journal Risk España,
The Masters in Financial Engineering (MFE) degree is a one-year graduate degree offered by the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.
Students in the MFE program learn to employ financial economics, mathematics, and computer modeling skills to make pricing, hedging, trading, risk management, project evaluation, and portfolio management decisions. With the added practical experience of a three month internship and a comprehensive applied finance project, MFE graduates are well prepared and ready to work as financial engineers.
If interested in hiring candidates from our program, please contact Dr. Linda Kreitzman at 510-643-4329 or lindak@haas.berkeley.edu
IPS-Sendero is a global organisation providing risk and value management solutions to deliver, fully integrated, Enterprise Risk Management and risk adjusted performance measurement. Our Enterprise Risk Management solutions enable financial institutions to comply with the pillars of Basel II, simulate interest rate risk on the banking book and fully test hedge effectiveness, using Monte Carlo techniques, for IAS 39 compliance. More than 3,400 financial organisations in 56 countries have licensed 7,800 IPS-Sendero products and services to help manage their risk, measure and manage profitability, develop budgets and forecasts, and produce information needed for sound decision-making,
IPS-Sendero's global headquarters are in Atlanta USA, with the EMEA headquarters in London and the ASPAC headquarters in Singapore. IPS-Sendero is a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV). More information about IPS-Sendero is available at www.ips-sendero.com
LexiFi - Analysis and Management of Complex Derivatives
LexiFi develops and markets software for the analysis and management of complex financial products. LexiFi provides the software infrastructure required to implement timely and pertinent derivative-based solutions. Investment banks, asset managers, and private banks rely on LexiFi to deliver tailored solutions while containing costs and risks, allowing them to develop a business that scales.
www.lexifi.comSuperDerivatives is the world’s leading derivatives solution provider. It provides real-time accurate pricing for all options through its unique pricing model that has become the world benchmark for option pricing. SuperDerivatives’ products cover the entire spectrum of derivatives usage and include real-time pricing and analytics platforms, risk management systems, portfolio revaluation services, options market data portal and an online trading platform.
SuperDerivatives' products are used by all banks around the world that are active in options as well as by numerous corporations, asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, custodians, auditors and central banks. The company operates and serves its clients diligently in over 60 countries in all continents. As of 2007 it has 400 employees in offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, Rome, Mumbai, Seoul and Buenos Aires.
Many of the world's most prominent and respected finance houses and institutions rely on NAG’s mathematical and statistical software components for their numerical applications because of the quality and accuracy the software gives to their work.
By utilizing NAG’s software in financial modeling critical business applications can be built more quickly, essential in today’s ever changing and volatile markets. And by embedding NAG software within financial applications, analysts and software engineers are able to spend more time in other areas of their work, and so ultimately improve productivity and time management.
For further information visit www.nag.co.uk or email us nagmarketing@nag.co.uk
The Reuters Kondor suite of trade and risk management solutions addresses core risk issues. Front to back desk-level technology provides real-time pricing, position keeping, trade processing and reporting features including messaging and the generation of accounting entries. Enterprise-wide risk management supports the analysis of credit and market risk exposures at group or firm-wide level.
Reuters acquired Palo Alto based Application Networks in June 2006 in order to benefit from the state-of-the-art SOA based JRisk technology and expertise in managing structured products and credit derivatives.
Reuters is relied upon 50% of the world’s top 25 financial institutions, Reuters Kondor solutions are installed at more than 700 customer sites providing critical services for 20,000 end users in more than 80 countries worldwide.
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