Kamakura Corporation Named to World Finance 100

NEW YORK, NY, Jan 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Kamakura Corporation reported Wednesday that the editors of World
Finance magazine have named Kamakura Corporation to the World Finance
100 released today in London. The World Finance 100 is compiled by
the editorial board at World Finance, in conjunction with reader
recommendations, to honor “the very finest businesses and business
leaders over the past year.” Kamakura Corporation is one of the
world’s leading risk management software and information providers
with clients in over 30 countries around the world. Kamakura is led
by founder Dr. Donald R. van Deventer and Managing Director for
Research Professor Robert A. Jarrow. The complete list of the members
of the World Finance 100 can be found at
www.worldfinance100.com .
Past honorees of the World Finance 100 have included firms and
individuals like Adobe Systems, Amazon.com, Apple, Berkshire
Hathaway, BMW, Carlos Slim Helu, Craig Venter, Deutsche Bank, Google,
HSBC, IBM, ING Group, Larry Ellison, Nippon Life, Samsung
Electronics, and Toyota.

Martin Zorn, Chief Administrative Officer for Kamakura Corporation,
said Wednesday, “The Kamakura management team would like to thank its
many clients around the world and the readers of World Finance
magazine for this very significant honor. In today’s complex
financial environment, creativity and analytical excellence are
essential to success. Kamakura is extremely pleased to be associated
with the firms and individuals named to the World Finance 100 for
this year. Our dedication to innovation, accuracy and transparency in
risk management information and software has been a hallmark of the
firm for the last 21 years, and we are very grateful that this
commitment has been recognized by the editors at World Finance.”

Kamakura’s co-heads of Europe Dr. James Moloney and Mr. Suresh
Sankaran received the award in a ceremony at the London Stock
Exchange. The video of that ceremony is available here:

http://kamakuraco.com/January42012PressRelease.aspx

About World Finance
World Finance is a leading financial magazine,
produced every two months by World News Media from its headquarters
in London. World Finance journalists report on capital markets, risk
management, trading, technology, corporate governance issues and
regional markets including Asia, Latin America and Europe, the Middle
East, and Africa. Reliable data from analysts and specialist writers
mean that World Finance content is essential reading for anybody who
wants to understand the machinations of finance in the twenty-first
century. For more on World Finance, please see
www.worldfinance.com .

About Kamakura Corporation
Founded in 1990, Honolulu-based Kamakura
Corporation is a leading provider of risk management information,
processing and software. Kamakura has taken Credit Technology
Innovation Awards from Credit Magazine each year since 2008. In 2010,
Kamakura was the only vendor to win 2 innovation awards, including
one with distribution partner Thomson Reuters. Kamakura, along with a
distributor of KRM, was ranked number one in asset and liability
management analysis and liquidity risk analysis in the RISK
Technology Rankings in 2009. Kamakura Risk Manager, first sold
commercially in 1993 and now in version 7.3, was also named in the
top five for market risk assessment, Basel II capital calculations,
and for “risk dashboard.” Kamakura was also ranked in the RISK
Technology Rankings 2008 as one of the world’s top 3 risk information
providers for its KRIS default probability service. The KRIS public
firm default service was launched in 2002, the KRIS sovereign default
service, the world’s first, was launched in 2008, and the KRIS
non-public firm default service was offered beginning in 2011. KRIS
default probabilities are displayed for 4,000 corporates and
sovereigns via the Reuters 3000 Xtra service and the Thomson Reuters
Eikon service. Kamakura has served more than 220 clients ranging in
size from $1.5 billion in assets to $1.6 trillion in assets.
Kamakura’s risk management products are currently used in more than
30 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, the
Netherlands, France, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom,
Russia, the Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South
America, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, India and many other
countries in Asia.

Kamakura has world-wide distribution alliances with SCSK Corporation
(
http://www.scsk.jp/index_en.html ), Unisys (
www.unisys.com ), and
Zylog Systems (
www.zylog.co.in ) making Kamakura products available in
almost every major city around the globe.

To follow risk management commentary by Kamakura on a daily basis,
please follow Kamakura CEO Dr. Donald van Deventer
(
www.twitter.com/dvandeventer ), Kamakura Chief Administrative Officer
Martin Zorn (
www.twitter.com/riskmgrhi ), and Kamakura’s official
twitter account (
www.twitter.com/KamakuraCo ).

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        For more information contact

        Kamakura Corporation
        2222 Kalakaua Avenue, Suite 1400
        Honolulu, Hawaii 96815, USA
        Telephone: 1-808-791-9888
        Facsimile: 1-808-791-9898
        Information: Email Contact

www.kamakuraco.com
        Press Contacts:

        Martin Zorn
        Chief Administrative Officer
        1-808-791-9888, extension 8700
        Email Contact

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