(openPR) - Luxembourg, 11 April 2007 – FERNBACH, a leading provider of solutions for IFRS accounting and Enterprise-wide Value & Risk Management, has won two new customers in Luxembourg.

Commerzbank International S.A. Luxemburg (CISAL) and Erste Europäische Pfandbrief- und Kommunalkreditbank AG (EEPK) have both selected FERNBACH FlexFinance® IFRS to streamline their accounting processes and to enable compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which soon may replace Luxembourg’s former national accounting standard.

Commerzbank International S.A. (CISAL) is a subsidiary of Commerzbank AG, Germany’s second-largest bank and one of Europe’s major banks. Erste Europäische Pfandbrief- und Kommunalkreditbank (EEPK) is a Luxembourg bank that specialises in public sector financing, and grants loans to states, countries, local authorities and institutions under public law which are headquartered within the European monetary union or within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Both banks are to implement FlexFinance® as the essential IFRS calculation and posting engine to their core banking systems which are based on TEMENOS Globus. FERNBACH was selected to provide information which was unavailable from the existing Globus system.

FERNBACH’s FlexFinance® IFRS is a straightforward solution that reduces the intricacy of IFRS compliance while also reducing costs. Based upon deal-level parallel accounting, as opposed to generating balance adjustments from local GAAP to IFRS, FlexFinance® IFRS offers banks and financial institutions investment security.

The FERNBACH system has an intuitive user interface which fully integrates with TEMENOS’s Globus system. This straightforward integration allows existing users of the Globus system, such as CISAL and EEPK, to easily use FERNBACH to prepare future statements according to IFRS as well as local GAAP.

CISAL and EEPK were both looking for an IFRS solution which would ensure efficient and accurate accounting, while providing data that would comply with auditing standards around traceability and data transparency.

Like many other banks, CISAL and EEPK were faced with the decision of whether to prepare their IFRS balance sheet in a decentralised arrangement linked to their operational core banking and trading systems; or to introduce a central accounting solution such as FERNBACH’s which can also be enhanced and deployed for other bank management purposes.

For both banks the availability, endorsements from FERNBACH’s existing customers and the superiority and functionality of the software were all decisive factors for the selection of FlexFinance® IFRS.

Paul Rothenberger, member of FERNBACH’s Management Board said, ‘IFRS-based valuation results and valuation approaches will characterise financial accounting, controlling, internal and regulatory reporting. With FlexFinance® IFRS, Commerzbank and EEPK will implement a solution which has already fulfilled these requirements based on one central basis for analysis. We are looking forward to working with the two institutes which operate very successfully within the Luxembourgian and the international markets.’

FERNBACH’s IFRS software uses raw deal data which can be transferred from existing settlement systems into the Data Management Suite (DMS). On the basis of this data set, it provides transaction-oriented, parallel IFRS accounting. All data and results can always be compared or verified at accounting event level. The person creating the balance sheet is guided through the audit trail click by click, from the balance sheet to the individual cash flow.

About FERNBACH

FERNBACH is a global leader of integrated banking solutions (FlexFinance®), based upon an advanced Enterprise-wide Value and Risk Management methodology (EVRM). FlexFinance® has been specifically designed to enable financial institutions to become more flexible and faster thus reducing their costs when implementing new requirements in accounting, reporting and risk management.

FERNBACH has developed a solution offering called FlexFinance® which is based upon a sophisticated methodology called EVRM. EVRM is a vision and a solution for the integration of risk management, risk and regulatory requirements, balance sheet reporting and controlling within financial institutions. The EVRM methodology is built upon a meta level data repository which collects all data from the banking and trading books and stores this centrally while simultaneously standardising and enriching the data. This centralised meta repository of financial transactions guarantees single calculation of all financial ratios ensuring perfect alignment and reconciliation so that the data can be used for purposes such as Basel II, IAS/IFRS (Multi-GAAP), Liquidity, Controlling, Regulatory Reporting, etc. The entire process is transparent and fully auditable as uniquely the data can be traced back to the deal level.

For more details please contact

Emma Connolly
Head of Group Marketing
FERNBACH-Software S.A.

Tel.: + 352 / 40 22 44 405
Email: emma.connolly@fernbach.com

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