Kamakura recognizes that many financial institutions, governments and corporations require risk management results but cannot currently invest the time or money in an external risk management software system. This is particularly true for institutions with limited information technology infrastructure, such as hedge funds, and for large institutions that require immediate results from an enterprise-wide risk management software package.
Kamakura On-Line Processing Services (KOPS) was introduced in 2000 and provides clients with a number of competitive advantages:
- Kamakura receives portfolio and market data in a client-designed format
- Kamakura uses its KRM-dm (Kamakura Risk Manager-Data Mapping) tool to map the data to standard KRM formats
- Kamakura returns results using Kamakura Risk Manager - Risk Portal, web based reporting tool
- Kamakura offers next day turn-around time for regular KOPS users and real-time capability is available on request
- No large or small limit exists on the number of transactions Kamakura can process
- The largest portfolio currently processed by a Kamakura client contains more than 92 million separate asset and liability items
- Processing is conducted via servers in a highly secure facility that Kamakura shares with major financial institutions and the U.S. government