Press Release

Virgin Money selects FRSGlobal for Enterprise-wide Financial Risk Management and Regulatory Reporting Function

Banking arm of the Virgin Group choose FRSGlobal’s unified risk and regulatory reporting solution for UK retail banking operations

LONDON. – Nov. 2, 2010 – FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that Virgin Money has selected its unified risk management and regulatory reporting platform across the enterprise ahead of its UK retail banking launch.

After a thorough selection process, FRSGlobal’s solution was chosen in order to deliver:

• A unified data centre serving both the risk and regulatory functions;
• The functional breadth and depth offered by the risk and regulatory solutions;
• The flexibility to accommodate the requirements of a rapidly-changing risk and regulatory environment.

The bank has selected FRSGlobal’s risk management platform, RiskPro for ALM, economic capital, funds transfer pricing (FTP), internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP), liquidity, market and credit risk. Alongside this, Virgin Money has selected RegPro, for its UK regulatory reporting requirements including enhanced liquidity reporting, single customer view automation and FSA and Bank of England returns.

Marian Watson, Chief Risk Officer at Virgin Money, said: “Virgin Money will aim to provide a real banking alternative to its customers. A crucial part of that is to make sure we have the most reliable, comprehensive and proven technology behind us. This was especially the case when choosing a risk and regulatory platform, as these are two factors that are at the top of the agenda for us.”

Mark Piper, FRSGlobal VP UK, Ireland and MEA, commented: “The fact that one of the highest profile banks to be set up in the UK over recent years has selected us for the wide array of risk and regulatory issues they will have to address is a true endorsement of our strategy at FRSGlobal. Virgin Money fully recognises the value of our “single version of the truth” approach - the ability to deliver so many of their key requirements through one solution and one core dataset was a very powerful driver in their decision to select us”.

Stephen Heron, FRSGlobal Sales Manager, UK and Ireland, added: “It is clear that any bank starting up in the UK post-financial crisis has to undertake thorough due diligence when selecting its risk and regulatory systems to make sure they are fully primed for business. When that bank is being run by a company with brand values as strong as the Virgin Group, the attention paid to selecting such a system is magnified. I am very pleased that after several intense workshops over the last few months we have been chosen as the “best of breed” solution.”

About FRSGlobal

FRSGlobal, which became part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services in September 2010, is the industry-recognised leader in unified global regulatory reporting and risk management solutions. These solutions, which are enriched with content including pre-defined regulatory reports and stress testing libraries, are employed daily across the globe by firms to meet increasingly complex external (regulatory) and internal (management) reporting obligations.

FRSGlobal solutions are a combination of in-depth content and modules from RegPro and RiskPro, sharing a single DataFoundation and CalculationEngine on a unified platform.

About Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is a comprehensive regulatory compliance and risk management business that helps financial organizations manage operational, compliance and financial risk and reporting, and improve efficiency and effectiveness across their enterprise. The organization’s prominent brands include: FRSGlobal, ARC Logics for Financial Services, PCi, Compliance Resource Network, Bankers Systems, VMP® Mortgage Solutions, AppOne®, GainsKeeper®, Capital Changes, NILS, AuthenticWeb™ and Uniform Forms™. Wolters Kluwer Financial Services supports its global customers with offices in more than 20 countries and is the world’s largest compliance and risk management business focused on financial services, with more than 15,000 banking, insurance and securities customers across the globe. Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is part of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company with annual revenues of (2009) €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion) and approximately 19,300 employees worldwide. Please visit our website for more information.