So how can you get involved?

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. For more than 85 years, our mission has been to help our clients achieve distinctive, substantial and lasting improvements in their performance. We help companies worldwide to define their strategies, strengthen their organizations and improve their operations. We are the trusted advisor and counselor to many of the most influential businesses and institutions in the world and our clients include more than two-thirds of the Fortune 1000.

In Risk, McKinsey acts as prime counselor to clients in all industries, with particularly strong links to our financial services, energy and materials industry practices. Our practice consists of more than 80 partners, 350 consultants and 65 experts and specialists, supported by a global risk analytics team focused on modeling and tool development. We serve clients on topics including enterprise risk management and risk culture, risk and regulation, credit risk, market and trading risk, and operational risk. As an institution privately owned by its partners, McKinsey remains completely independent.

Numerix is the global leader in cross-asset analytics for OTC derivatives and structured products, providing software and services for structuring, pre-trade
pricing and analysis, trade capture, valuation, and risk management. Numerix offers a comprehensive model library and a transparent deal-definition architecture that allows the rapid modeling of any instrument, including commodity, credit, equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and inflation derivatives, plus a unique hybrid model framework for exotics and structured products. Numerix analytics are available through Windows applications, Excel add-ins, developer kits and a wide range of partner systems, with over 700 clients and 50 partners across more than 25 countries. Founded in 1996, Numerix is privately held, with offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Mumbai and Dubai.

TURAZ is the leading provider of trade and risk management software globally. It employs over 1,000 skilled professionals serving more than 600 financial
institutions across 66 countries. Some 25,000 financial professionals rely on TURAZ’s flagship products including Kondor+, Kondor Trade Processing (KTP),
Kondor Global Risk (KGR) and Top Office to monitor and proactively manage risk across the enterprise. Founded in 1992, TURAZ was acquired from Thomson Reuters by Vista Equity Partners in January 2012. For more information visit: www.turazglobal.com

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 236,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011

Accenture Risk Management consulting services works with clients to create and implement integrated risk management capabilities designed to gain higher economic returns, improve shareholder value and increase stakeholder confidence. For more information visit www.accenture.com/riskmanagement

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Fully integrated with the Bloomberg Professional service, Bloomberg Trading Solutions delivers front-end portfolio, inventory, sales & trading, and middle & back office operations solutions. With these solutions, buy-side and sell-side firms gain unrivalled agility to respond to their changing business needs, and market regulations & innovations. Bloomberg’s Portfolio & Risk Analytics solution offers an enhanced series of customizable tools for the desktop. Features include intraday portfolio monitoring, characteristics, portfolio news alerts and multi-factor risk models. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

Decision-makers today must plan to manage, mitigate, accept and capitalize on the risks they know and respond to new risks as they emerge. We have over 1,500 financial services risk management professionals to help you assess your options, improve your operations and manage your risk as an enterprise-wide discipline. We assemble the appropriate multidisciplinary teams and use consistent, proven global methodologies and tools to help you – wherever you are in the world. And because we understand that, to achieve your potential, you need a tailored service as much as consistent methodologies, we work to give you the benefit of our broad sector experience, our deep subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide. It’s how Ernst & Young makes a difference.

SEBA International is an executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of Finance, Risk and Go-To-Market professionals across the global financial services, technology and related industries. SEBA earns the loyalty of our clients through our ability to deliver outstanding results – not just once, but every time they need the best possible candidate for a strategically important position. Deep, trusted client relationships, complemented by extensive domain expertise and a global network, help us achieve close alignment between companies and candidates to ensure long-term retention and continued success. Our Finance & Risk practice recruits exclusively within the finance, risk, analytics and compliance disciplines serving clients across the global financial services sector and related industries. This dedicated focus on these specific disciplines has allowed us to develop unsurpassed knowledge of the marketplace, which in turn, has translated into and continues to deliver faster results for our clients.

S&P Capital IQ is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world.  We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions, enterprise solutions, and research offerings, S&P Capital IQ provides market insight, credit information and analytical tools to help organizations evaluate the credit quality of clients, suppliers, and banking institutions and to better manage and mitigate counterparty credit risk.

Wiley Global Finance is a leading global publisher of finance and investment titles, offering critically acclaimed and best-selling books, subscription content, journals and information services written by the industry's foremost thinkers and innovators. Our market-leading risk management content spans the professional and academic landscape in all sectors of market risk, modeling and quantitative finance.  Leading Products Include: Wilmott Magazine, Financial Risk Management Handbook, Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance, Market Risk Analysis Vol. I-IV, Red Blooded Risk, and many more. Learn more about our products at www.wileyglobalfinance.com or visit our thought leading blog www.capitalexchangeblog.com for insights from our authors.

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