Founded in 1990, Kamakura Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of risk management software, risk management information and risk management consulting. Kamakura Risk Manager, first sold commercially in 1993, is a fully integrated enterprise risk management system that combines asset and liability management, credit portfolio management, market risk management, Basel II and other capital allocation technologies, transfer pricing, and performance measurement. Kamakura Risk Information Services provides interest rate information, default probabilities, default correlations, and advanced analysis of synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Kamakura has provided risk management consulting services to sophisticated governments, corporations and financial institutions around the world since 1990. Kamakura's 185 clients span 27 countries with an equal balance among clients in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Kamakura's research effort is led by Professor Robert A. Jarrow, who has served as a Managing Director of Kamakura since 1995. Professor Jarrow and Kamakura founder Dr. Donald R. van Deventer were named to the 50 member RISK Magazine Hall of Fame in 2002.