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Daehan Fire and Marine Insurance Licenses Kamakura Risk Manager System


Kamakura Corporation reported today that
Daehan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. has licensed the Kamakura Risk
Manager enterprise-wide integrated risk management system. Daehan Fire and
Marine www.daeins.com)"> is one of the leading insurance companies in Korea.
Its Kamakura Risk Manager installation will be focused on
state-of-the-art market risk management. Daehan becomes the 11th Kamakura
client in Korea and the 8th Kamakura client in the insurance industry.
Unisys Korea will lead the systems integration at Daehan, the 10th time
that Unisys has acted as systems integrator for a Kamakura Risk Manager
installation.
"Kamakura Corporation is very pleased to have Daehan Fire and Marine join
the Kamakura user group," said Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, Kamakura
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Insurance companies in Korea have
learned the lessons of the Asia crisis and they are moving aggressively to
build a strong risk management infrastructure. Daehan Fire and Marine is
one of the leaders in this trend."
About Daehan Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.
Daehan Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. Is one of the leading property
and casualty insurance companies in Korea, with more than 1,400 employees.
The Company serves clients from more than 260 locations, specializing in a
wide range of property and casualty insurance products. Daehan's main
product lines include fire insurance, marine insurance, long-term
savings-type insurance, automobile insurance, liability insurance,
engineering insurance, annuity insurance, and personal accident insurance.
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.
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