Middle East Roadshow: riskpro™ and the integrated financial analysis

riskpro™ and the integrated financial analysis roadshow

Zurich, January 23, 2008 -- IRIS announces its 2008 free of charge unified financial analysis solutions and riskpro™ Roadshow in the Middle East.

On this auspicious occasion Dr. Willi Brammertz, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of IRIS will give his views on the traps and shortcomings of the silo approach to financial analysis and confront it with the benefits of a fully integrated financial analysis approach. On a second presentation he shall demonstrate the benefits in terms of convergence of risk taking, performance management from dynamic analysis and simulation.

Dr. Sunil Kumar, Head of Risk Management Middle East and co-author of the recently published book "Financial Risk Management for Islamic Banking and Finance", will present his views on the next steps after Basel II, and what they mean for the Banks in the Middle East.

Additional presentations of IRIS experts include risk-based pricing, credit rating, anti-money laundering and operational risk.

The planned schedule is.

• January 26, 2008 (8:15-15:00) at the Sheraton Doha Resort & Convention Hotel in Doha, Qatar. Program details.

• January 28, 2008 (8:15-15:00) at the Kempinski Hotel in Amman, Jordan. Program details.

• January 31, 2008 (8:15-15:00) at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai, UAE. Program details.

After the conference the participants will share lunch. For event details and registrations please contact James Khoury, Strategic Business Manager, + 971 50 545 3808 or info@irisunified.com.

About IRIS

IRIS integrated risk management ag (www.irisunified.com), formed in 1992 in Zurich, has its headquarters in Switzerland. It continuously develops, maintains and supports its riskpro™ financial analysis infrastructure out of Switzerland since 1997. Delivery, implementation and consulting are executed worldwide directly by IRIS AG and indirectly in cooperation with a number of local partners.

About riskpro™

riskpro™ enables financial organizations to measure and monitor risk and profitability enterprise-wide with a single cost effective integrated analysis infrastructure. riskpro™ covers: Market Risk Analysis, Credit Risk Analysis, Performance and Funds Transfer Pricing, Dynamic Simulation, Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), Limit Management, Settlement Risk, Rating / Scoring, Basel II, Regulatory Capital, Economic Capital, Capital Allocation, IAS 32 & 39 / IFRS 7, Solvency II, Asset and Liability Management, Liquidity risk Management and Analysis, Operational Risk.

These analyses cover all financial products, from saving accounts to exotic options, for any type of accepted valuation method. The underlying universal contract-centric data model and calculation engine of riskpro™ ensures precision and consistency in all results. riskpro™ is currently being used or implemented in over 230 small to large financial organizations in 20 countries.