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  KASB COMMERCIAL BANK SIGNS ALCHEMY RISK MANAGER
June 2007

Karachi, Pakistan – Alchemy Associates / Alchemy Technologies signs up with KASB Bank for the implementation of Alchemy Risk Manager for State Bank and Basel II compliance. KASB engaged Alchemy for a review of the middle office in November 2006 and have now selected the Alchemy Risk Manager solution to strengthen its middle office function.

The KASB implementation includes ALM, Market Risk, Stress testing and Basel II capital calculator for market, credit and operational risk.

Alchemy Risk Manager is a Basel II compliant enterprise risk solution which offers additional features such as treasury and risk adjusted return calculator, derivative pricing engine, derivative risk management, interest rate simulation model, value at risk estimators, portfolio benchmarking and back testing tool kit.

About KASB
KASB Bank, with its presence in 13 cities, through its network of 35 branches, delivers a comprehensive range of banking services in consumer banking, corporate banking, treasury and trade finance.

About Alchemy
Alchemy is a boutique risk management firm with customers in Pakistan, Middle East and Thailand that has been growing at more than 100% a year, year on year for the last four years. The company’s flagship product, the “Alchemy Risk Manager” has won multiple industry awards and has been successfully implemented at multiple client sites including banks and insurance companies.