BARBADOS
KPMG
Managing Partner: Ms. Carol Nicholls
Hastings, Christ Church, BB15154, BARBADOS
Tel: (246) 427 5230/Fax: (246) 427 7123
KPMG is a global network of professional firms whose purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of their clients, their people, and the capital markets. They operate in 148 countries and have more than 113,000 professionals working around the world. KPMG in Barbados is a member firm of KPMG CARICOM - a regional governance entity, comprising the KPMG member firms in Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean (with offices in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and providing services in Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis), Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. They offer clients the ability to leverage the combined skills, knowledge and experience of 28 partners and over 330 professionals, in delivering value to clients and people across the Caribbean. KPMG’s practice is organised around their Audit, Tax and Advisory practices through which they deliver a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary financial and accounting skills and capabilities based on deep industry knowledge. They help regional and international organizations to meet their challenges and respond to the constant pressure to deliver ever-better results while contending with a wide range of risks that can threaten survival. KPMG people operate within industry groups, giving their clients access to advisors who understand their specific business issues and concerns and whose advice is grounded in understanding and appreciation of the particular needs of each client. Service offerings span all industries, both private and public sector, and cover the following areas: Audit - Financial Statement Audit, Statutory Audit, SOX 404 Compliance; Tax - Corporate Tax, Domestic and International, Indirect and Personal Tax; Advisory - Accounting Advisory Services, Business Performance Services, Corporate Finance, Financial Risk Management, Forensic, Internal Audit Regulatory and Compliance Services, Information Technology Advisory, Restructuring and Transaction Services.
CANADA
Bervertec CST Inc.
CEO/Managing Director: Mr Barry Walsh
5935 Airport Road, Suite 400, Ontario, L4V 1W5, CANADA
Tel: (416) 695 7525 /Fax: (416) 695 7526
E-Mail: bwalsh@bevertec.com
Website: www.bevertec.com
Founded in 1981, Bevertec is a supplier of IT consulting services and solutions to financial institutions globally. They are primarily involved in: Information Technology Consulting Services - within the past two decades, they have nurtured an inherent ability and professional infrastructure to search, select, and train and place candidates from various technological backgrounds and specialties. They pride themselves on their capability to seamlessly deliver highly skilled resourcesto their clients both effectively and efficiently. Their Strength: their service commitment to their clients needs access to a pool of highly skilled professionals who have built their own reputation, and consistently deliveringstrategic business solutions to their clients. Information Technology Solutions - empowering their clients with the solutions to thrive in this flourishing market place has been Bevertec’s vision from the outset. Their solutions enable their customers to access an “anytime, anywhere” global service delivery model that maximizes their ROI on all IT projects. They are a single-source global provider of fully integrated, end-to-end electronic banking solutions using open system technologies. Bevertec is the first to offer the financial market the compatibility, flexibility and upward scalability necessary for global electronic service delivery. As an industry-leading technology provider, Bevertec is well positioned to deliver financial transaction processing solutions that help banks leverage technology for growth and profitability. Their results-oriented technology solutions and financial processes help banks attract and retain profitable customers, generate new revenue streams and improve bank efficiency ratios. This, coupled with their dedication to building enriching, long-standing partnerships as the single-source technology provider of choice, ensures their uncompromising commitment to quality service and customer care. Bevertec has enjoyed a long and successful relationship with Indigenous Banks in the Caribbean. They have beenproviding these institutions over the past 20 years with quality cost effective consulting services and IT product solutions. This spans the entire region. The main solutions under their ESP-Link™ brand are: Comprehensive Card Solution (CCS), Financial Transaction Solution (FTS), Business Intelligence Solution (BIS), Alert Management Solutions (AMS), Integrated Collections Management Solution (ICMS) and Fraud Prevention Solution (FPS).
Open Solutions Canada
Mr. Rob Palin
General Manager, Payment Solutions Group
700 Doruae Drive, Suite 202
Oakville ON
L6K 3V3
CANADA
Tel: (905) 849 1390
Fax: (905) 49 1396
Email: psg-sales@opensolutions.com
Website: www.opensolutions.com
Open Solutions Inc. is a leading provider of software services that allows financial institutions to compete for and provide services to their customers more effectively. The company develops, markets, license and support enterprise-wise suite of software services that are used to perform financial institutions’ data processing and information management functions. This includes:
1. Maintaining customer records
2. Transaction processing
3. Information gathering and reporting
4. Operational back office support
5. Internet Banking
6. Payment processing; and
7. Check Imaging
Open Solutions Canada commenced operations in the Caribbean 25 years ago and provides financial systems and payment software to major national networks (CARFIS), JETS and (LINK) of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The Company’s technology products and services can be deployed and maintained in-house or hosted on a “software-as-a-service” outsourced basis at one of its data centers. The company revenue flow is derived primarily from the sale of licenses from its core software and complimentary products, fees generated from outsourcing and payment processing centre and fees from installation, customization, training maintenance, and support services.
Open solutions serves financial institutions of all sizes. However, its major clients are commercial banks and thrifts with under US$20 bn of assets and credit unions of all sizes. For more information you may visit our website at www.opensolutions.com.
JAMAICA
Fujitsu Caribbean (Jamaica) Limited
President & CEO: Mr. Mervyn Eyre
18 Belmont Road
Kingston 5, JAMAICA
Tel: (876) 926 7567/Fax: (876) 920 4761
Email: meyre@fj-icl.com
Fujitsu Caribbean is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US$47 –billion Fujitsu Group. Fujitsu integrates the core expertise of their skilled resources and Business Partners to deliver IT Infrastructure Solutions and Managed Services that continuously evolve to respond to their customer’s complex business and technology issues. Focused on the Financial Services, Telecommunications and Government sectors they simplify IT for their customers and build more value into their IT investments. Fujitsu is the world’s fourth largest IT Services Company and has been operating in the Caribbean for over 50 years. Managed by a regional executive team, they have offices in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad; including business agents in the Bahamas, St.Vincent, Haiti, Anguilla, Antigua, Dominican Republic and Grenada, to serve the entire region. Fujitsu has delivered and currently supports mission critical ICT solutions and networks across the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean.
The Jamaica Institute of Bankers (JIOB) was formed in 1977 by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) and a group of commercial banks to “satisfy the training and educational needs of the financial industry”. Responsibility for the operation of the JIOB was transferred to the Jamaica Bankers Association (JBA) in 1999. The JIOB is registered by the University Council of Jamaica as a tertiary educational institution and has remained focused on its main objective of educating the financial services sector. Its mission is, “The Jamaica Institute of Bankers is committed to the continuous development of knowledgeable, responsive and customer-driven professionals and strives to facilitate excellent education, training and information services for a superior return on investment in human capital for the financial services sector and the wider business community”.
JIOB Development Courses: The Institute responds to the needs of the finance and business sectors by hosting a number of training courses and seminars each year. In addition, the Institute plans and coordinates in-house training programmes tailored specifically to the needs of individual organisations. MBA Programme: The JIOB is the Caribbean Centre for the Manchester Business School Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programmes. These programmes - MBA for Financial Managers and Finance Professionals and MBA for Engineering Business Managers - are offered within the Caribbean via a unique blended-learning programme through the Manchester Business School Worldwide. The ICA International Certificate and Diploma Programmes: In partnership with the International Compliance Association (ICA), the JIOB offers professional qualifications in Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Prevention.
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
IBIS Management Associates Inc.
Chief Executive Officer: Mr. Clark F.Russel
IBIS Plaza, Santa Rosaweg 32,
Willemstad,Curacao
Netherlands Antilles
Tel: + 5999 737 2065 (Curacao)/1-305 767 2875 (USA)
IBIS Management Associates Inc. is the leading advisor to Central, Commercial and Private Banks in the Caribbean and the Americas. IBIS Management empowers banks to become compliant and “profitably efficient” in every facet of their operations including back office operations, internet banking, and mobile banking. IBIS Management’s Alchemy Platform now helps more than 25 major banks in the region process all their payments straight-through with minimal manual intervention. Automated processing with Alchemy has helped banks take a quantum leap forward in their business process improvement and performance measurement. IBIS Management senior banking consultants also provide best-practice training in multi-currency international banking as well as SWIFT outsourcing, AML, compliance, Basel II and automated reconciliations. In as little as three months banks can satisfy their board and shareholders by doubling the profitability of their operations and improve their operating efficiency by over 600%.
SAINT LUCIA
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Managing Partner: Mr. Anthony D Atkinson
P.O. Box 195, Castries, SAINT LUCIA
Tel: (758) 456 2600/Fax: (758) 452 1061
E-Mail: pwc@candw.lc
Website: www.pwc.com/lc
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the world's largest accounting firm. Its Mission is, “To build public trust and enhance value to stakeholders in order to set a standard for business and lead the profession”. The Saint Lucia office is a part of the Eastern Caribbean practice operating in Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, St Kitts and Saint Lucia, with 20 partners and 200 professional staff. It is the largest professional financial services firm in the Eastern Caribbean and the largest firm in each individual island. The firm provides industry financial assurance, tax, advisory and corporate services for public and private sector clients.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
GRAVITAS Capital Inc.
Chairman & CEO: Mr. Eric-Vincent Guichard
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 900 South, Washington D.C. 20004
Tel: (202) 434 8341/Fax: (203) 318 2509
GRAVITAS Capital Inc. (GRAVITAS) was founded in 1996 by Eric-Vincent Guichard. A US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Registered Investment Advisor with offices in London and Washington, DC. The firm provides financial solutions for Private and Sovereign Institutional Investors. GRAVITAS creates innovative products for retail and institutional investors and is uniquely positioned in that it advises Central Banks, National Insurance Boards and Private Banks in the region. It has been instrumental in structuring a number of regional solutions such as Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund and CDB Micro-Finance Guarantee Fund, among others. To date, the firm has structured over US$ 2 billion in institutional investment solutions, including, among others:
The Pension Support Fund Ltd- a pension liability hedging solution; and The Tactical Allocation Fund, LLC- a global fund of mutual funds providing a range of liquidity features (High, Moderate and Low). In addition, GRAVITAS designs tailored solutions for corporate treasuries, credit unions members, and commercial banks’ high net worth clients. The firm also creates innovative domestic, regional and global financial products for the purpose of re-branding and distribution (white labeling). GRAVITAS has been assigned several financial innovation related “patents pending” by the US Patent & Trade Office. The firm has clients who are members of CAIB and its principal Eric-Vincent Guichard has actively participated in CAIB, CDB, CCMF, Economist Intelligence Unit and Euromoney conferences in the region.
Misys International Banking Systems Inc
Mr. Edward Ho
Executive Vice President
1180 Avenue of the Americas
5th Floor
New York, NY 10036
USA
Tel: (212) 898 9500
FAX: (212) 898 9510
Email: Courtnay.curlin@misys.com
Website: www.misys.com
Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), provides integrated, comprehensive solutions delivering significant results to financial services organizations. We maximize customer value by combining our deep knowledge of their business with our commitment to their success. Misys is a market leader in banking and treasury & capital markets, with over 1,200 customers worldwide. With around 3,500 people, we serve customers in over 130 countries. Misys’ offerings include core, internet and mobile banking solutions built on SOA-compliant Java. We support a variety of databases, including MS SQL and Oracle. Misys has leveraged its 30 years of experience to develop BankFusion as a new standard for building innovative, flexible and scalable applications for the banking industry. We aspire to be the world’s best application software and Services Company, delivering results for the financial services industry throughout the world. Visit us today at www.misys.com.
