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BMO Bank of Montreal Adopts Nomis Solutions’ Pricing Optimization Across Multiple Product Areas

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San Bruno, CA (PRWEB) November 10, 2008

Nomis Solutions, the leading provider of best-in-class Pricing and Profitability Management for financial services companies, today announced that BMO Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO) has selected the Nomis Price Optimizer. BMO will deploy Nomis Solutions’ award-winning pricing optimization solution for originations and retention across multiple product areas with an initial focus on personal and indirect lending. Scheduled to deploy its first set of optimized rates early in 2009, BMO is anticipating greater agility in the rapidly changing market.

By deploying the Nomis Price Optimizer across multiple product areas, BMO will be leveraging a best-in-class pricing and profitability management approach that is based on a quantifiable understanding of the impact of pricing on customer response, product performance, and risk. BMO will then have a more consistent, repeatable and efficient pricing process that allows them to make changes more dynamically and with a higher level of confidence.

“With our work in the Canadian market over the past two years, we’ve learned a lot about customer response to offers and pricing and have demonstrated our ability to materially impact financial performance for our customers,” said Nomis Solutions’ Chairman and CEO,

Dennis Stradford. “We look forward helping BMO adopt a more advanced and dynamic approach to pricing strategically across its retail banking businesses.”

The award-winning Nomis Price Optimizer is designed for executives responsible for pricing loan and deposit products who want to use pricing strategically to drive financial performance at the national, regional, and local levels. This solution is the backbone of the Pricing and Profitability Management suite and delivers a clear understanding of customer response and how price impacts performance. By leveraging this information, the pricing team can quickly pinpoint which segments are under-priced or over-priced and better tailor pricing decisions to meet performance targets. Nomis Price Optimizer also helps build a more attractive portfolio mix to meet the “originations to order” requirements of the securitizations market. Currently deployed at more than 12 banks and finance companies worldwide, Nomis Price Optimizer optimizes more than $ 5 Billion in consumer lending each month.

About Nomis Solutions

Nomis Solutions enables best-in-class Pricing and Profitability Management for financial services companies. Through a combination of advanced analytics, innovative technology, and tailored business processes, the Pricing and Profitability ManagementTM Suite delivers quick time-to-benefit, and improves financial and operational performance throughout the customer acquisition and portfolio management processes.

The Pricing and Profitability ManagementTM Suite of business solutions includes the award-winning Nomis Price OptimizerTM, the Nomis Offer OptimizerTM, the Customer Portfolio OptimizerTM, and the Nomis NavigatorTM. These solutions are designed to meet the specific requirements of auto finance, home equity lending, personal lending, mortgage, and deposits executives. Select customers include Abbey, AmeriCredit, Chrysler Financial, HBOS plc, and Royal Bank of Canada. Headquartered in San Bruno, CA, Nomis Solutions also has offices in London, United Kingdom. Visit http://www.nomissolutions.com or contact us at 650-588-9800.

Nomis Solutions, the Nomis Price Optimizer, Nomis Offer Optimizer, the Customer Portfolio Optimizer and the Nomis Pricing and Profitability Management Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nomis Solutions, in the United States and in other countries. Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Nomis Solutions Announces Pricing and Profitability Management Suite for Retail Banks

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San Bruno, CA (PRWEB) December 2, 2008

Nomis Solutions, a leader in best-in-class Pricing and Profitability Management for financial services companies, today revealed its expanded suite of solutions and services for optimal customer acquisition and portfolio management. Available immediately, the Nomis Solutions Pricing and Profitability Management SuiteTM for Retail Banks capitalizes on Nomis Solutions’ domain expertise within retail banking. Through a combination of advanced analytics, innovative technology, and tailored business practices and processes, the Suite for Retail Banks improves financial and operational performance on both sides of the balance sheet.

“In today’s turbulent market, pricing has taken on a new level of importance,” shared Kathleen Khirallah, managing director and practice leader of the banking practice at TowerGroup. “Consumer lending executives need to ensure they are appropriately pricing for profit and risk. Deposits executives need to price appropriately to achieve funding targets without ‘giving away the farm.’ These goals can only be successfully achieved by using an understanding of customer response to pricing — a key insight that is missing from most pricing decisions today.”

With a scarcity and higher cost of capital, unstable portfolios, and an unpredictable competitive landscape, bank executives need to be proactive and look for new approaches to pricing and profitability management. This begins with the rates they offer consumers for loans and deposits products. With the ability to quantify consumer response to pricing, executives can align pricing goals and a pricing strategy with business objectives and financial performance targets. Because they are able to forecast what new loans they can expect to acquire before putting actual prices into the market, banking and finance management can have an intelligent debate on the inevitable tradeoffs such as profit, volume and risk goals, tier/term mix, credit score distribution, and loan-to-value (LTV) that will occur as a result of a pricing action.

Once performance goals are set, prices can be optimized to achieve profit, volume and balance targets from the loan portfolio level down to the micro-segment level. Executives can measure the impact of a competitor price change or recent exit on their business. The benefits include: increased profits and/or market share, higher returns on assets, improved deposits balances, more control over risk, a cohesive view of key performance indicators (KPIs) and the use of a more structured, repeatable and efficient pricing process.

For lenders, the ability to predict the impact of price on consumer response enables them to optimize their credit and term mix within the context of their risk and asset backed securities (ABS) conduit tolerances. For deposits executives, an understanding of consumer response to deposit rates at the point of sale and renewal helps drive incremental margin improvements and helps banks reduce its overall cost of funds.

“Although pricing is one of the most effective ways to immediately impact financial performance, it’s dramatically underutilized by most banks today,” said Frank Rohde, chief marketing officer at Nomis Solutions. “Our analysis shows that responsiveness to price is changing on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, which is the most rapidly changing consumer behavior that we’ve witnessed to date. Executives need to better understand and quantify how this changing behavior is impacting their performance and if and when to make price changes in order to meet their business objectives.”

Three integrated solutions comprise the Pricing and Profitability Suite for Retail Banking:

Auto Finance Market Profits from Pricing and Profitability Management Suite from Nomis Solutions

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San Bruno, CA (PRWEB) December 2, 2008

Nomis Solutions, a leader in best-in-class Pricing and Profitability Management for financial services companies, today announced the immediate availability of its suite of solutions and services specifically tailored for auto finance companies. The Nomis Pricing and Profitability Management SuiteTM for Auto Finance capitalizes on Nomis Solutions’ domain expertise within auto finance and includes pricing, offer and portfolio optimization capabilities. Through a combination of advanced analytics, innovative technology, and tailored business practices and processes, the Suite for Auto Finance improves financial and operational performance.

A number of the world’s leading auto finance and bank executives were granted an exclusive preview of the Nomis Solutions Pricing and Profitability Management Suite at the Global Pricing Optimization Forum in New York. John William Snow, chairman of Cerberus Capital Management and former Secretary of the Treasury, delivered the keynote address and said, “Mis-pricing leads to misallocation of resources and waste in the system. In the current situation, mis-pricing has lead to cataclysmic results. But, businesses that are going to make it and break through to the other side are going to have to use analytics to really understand their customers in a way that’s beyond what they are doing today. We are doing it at Cerberus because we know it’s critical to success.”

Burdened by a combination of decreasing auto sales, declining margins, increasing losses, and a scarcity and higher cost of capital, auto finance executives need to be proactive and look for new approaches to pricing and profitability management. With the ability to quantify consumer response to pricing, executives can align pricing goals and a pricing strategy with business objectives and financial performance targets. This approach also supports an intelligent debate on the inevitable tradeoffs such as profit, volume and risk goals, tier/term mix, credit score distribution, and loan-to-value (LTV). Once performance goals are set, prices can be optimized to achieve profit, volume and credit mix targets from the portfolio level down to the micro-segment level.

Auto loans are the second largest subsector of asset-backed securities (ABS). Auto finance companies that are reliant on the ABS market are finding capital scarce and investors are demanding to know more about the underlying assets. This combination has resulted in an extremely selective secondary market that is requiring loan portfolios that are “originated-to-order” – meaning investors want transparent loan portfolios that offer only certain types of financing products to certain types of borrowers. However, most executives don’t have visibility into the makeup of the portfolio they would build based on the prices they are planning to put into the market. With Nomis Solutions Pricing and Profitability Management Suite, auto finance executives are able to forecast what they can expect to acquire as a result of a pricing action before putting prices into the market. The ability to predict the impact of price on consumer response enables them to optimize their credit and term mix within the context of their risk and ABS conduit tolerances.

The Pricing and Profitability Management Suite for Auto Finance includes:


Nomis Offer Optimizer: The Nomis Offer Optimizer is built for credit analysts that engage in deal-by-deal negotiations and want to customize offers to meet the needs of the auto finance company, the Finance & Insurance Manager, and end-consumer. This solution centralizes all the key data inputs required to make an informed decision, such as the characteristics of the borrower, vehicle and dealer, dealer history and the proposed deal terms. It also provides simulation and optimization capabilities for deal structuring and pricing so that credit analysts understand the impact of various options on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as profits and deal conversion before responding to the dealer.
Nomis Navigator: Designed specifically for senior management responsible for one product, a line of business with multiple products, or multiple lines of business, the Nomis Navigator is an executive dashboard that provides enhanced visibility into critical banking metrics for auto finance companies. This includes capturing actual and forecasted performance over time and highlighting areas of exposure in new originations by providing cautionary guidance and profit opportunities in the existing portfolio. It can be configured to meet the needs of a bank executive that is interested in better tracking KPIs such as volume, profit, credit mix, by product, geography and customer segment. In addition, alerts can be set up to quickly identify, diagnose and respond to emerging problems.
Nomis Price Optimizer: Created for executives responsible for pricing loan and deposit products who want to capitalize on strategic pricing to drive financial performance from the portfolio down to the micro-segment level. The award-winning Nomis Price Optimizer is the backbone of the Pricing and Profitability Suite and delivers a clear understanding of consumer response and how price impacts performance. By leveraging this information, pricing teams can quickly pinpoint which segments are incorrectly priced and better tailor pricing decisions to meet performance targets. Nomis Price Optimizer also helps build a more attractive portfolio mix to meet the “originations to order” requirements of the securitizations market.

“Nomis Solutions’ continued focus on the Auto Finance market in the U.S. and Canada is changing the way in which traditional and non-traditional lending institutions compete and service their customers,” said Frank Rohde, chief marketing officer at Nomis Solutions. “Auto Finance has always been astute at creating pricing models that account for the depreciation of the asset, incorporating customer response data and market and attitudinal changes. Nomis Solutions’ Pricing and Profitability Management for Auto Finance provides an integrated platform allowing executives to make decisions to better manage and optimize lending practices for profit improvements.”

Today’s announcement of Pricing and Profitability Management Suite for Auto Finance is complemented by the release of the Pricing and Profitability Management Suite for Retail Banks. Both solutions were unveiled to more than 75 bank and finance executives at the Pricing and Profitability Executive Forum in New York, and at the Pricing & Profitability Executive Summit in Europe that was co-hosted by TowerGroup and Nomis Solutions.

About Nomis Solutions

Nomis Solutions enables best-in-class Pricing and Profitability Management for financial services companies. Through a combination of advanced analytics, innovative technology, and tailored business processes, the Pricing and Profitability ManagementTM Suite delivers quick time-to-benefit, and improves financial and operational performance throughout the customer acquisition and portfolio management processes.

The Pricing and Profitability ManagementTM Suite of business solutions includes the award-winning Nomis Price OptimizerTM, the Nomis Offer OptimizerTM, the Customer Portfolio OptimizerTM, and the Nomis NavigatorTM. These solutions are designed to meet the specific requirements of auto finance, home equity lending, personal lending, mortgage, and deposits executives. Select customers include Abbey, AmeriCredit, Bank of Montreal, Chrysler Financial, HBOS plc, and Royal Bank of Canada. Headquartered in San Bruno, CA, Nomis Solutions also has offices in London, United Kingdom. Visit http://www.nomissolutions.com or contact us at 650-588-9800.

Nomis Solutions, the Nomis Price Optimizer, Nomis Offer Optimizer, the Customer Portfolio Optimizer and the Nomis Pricing and Profitability Management Suite are trademarks or registered tr

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DebtMarket Launches as First Automated Portfolio Marketplace; Will Expedite Pricing, Purchase and Sale of Consumer Debt

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Danville, Calif. and Los Angeles (PRWEB) August 17, 2009

In an effort to answer the vexing question of how financial institutions can price troubled assets, DebtMarket (http://www.debtmarket.com) launches today as the world’s first automated marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of loan portfolios.

DebtMarket enables an estimated 60,000 loan originators (primarily banks, credit unions and finance companies) and portfolio owners (primarily institutions, hedge funds and private equity investors) to list loans from the major consumer loan asset classes, including automobiles, mortgages and student loans. In the months ahead, the company also will support credit card portfolios and other asset classes. DebtMarket accepts loan portfolios of any size, credit quality and loan performance.

DebtMarket enters a market that is measured in the trillions of dollars. Total U.S. revolving and non-revolving consumer debt, including mortgages, was more than $ 14 trillion at the end of 2008, according to the Federal Reserve. DebtMarket also has the potential to play a role in helping both the federal government and the lending industry price hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled assets. Clearer market pricing results in greater market liquidity and efficiency.

The company also announced it has tapped Intel’s former research director as CTO and enlisted several top consumer finance leaders for its advisory board [see the news release, “DebtMarket Attracts Leaders in Technology, Financial Services”].

“DebtMarket is a solution to the credit crisis, applying game-changing technology to provide a transparent, efficient, standardized platform that financial institutions and institutional investors anywhere can use to price, purchase and sell debt,” said DebtMarket Founder and Chairman Scott Walchek. “DebtMarket transforms the existing secondary debt market – much as eBay transformed the auction marketplace – by making it easy for institutions and institutional investors of all types and sizes to participate.”

A serial entrepreneur who has created, led and/or funded an impressive roster of highly successful start-up companies, Walchek has been an innovator in educational video games, a pioneer in Internet shopping cart technology, and was among the first to see the search technology opportunities in China with Baidu. “Technology is the gateway to transparency, and transparency is the tonic that has the power to re-ignite the economy,” Walchek said. “The world’s first automated portfolio marketplace, DebtMarket is the antidote to traditional opaque loan sale methodologies that talk about transparency but fail to deliver. We see DebtMarket as an ideal tool for regulators seeking to expedite the clean-up of toxic bank assets, especially for those small- to mid-size institutions that previously have lacked a marketplace for their loans.”

DebtMarket enables participants to establish and negotiate pricing, perform due diligence and complete all the paperwork needed to close the transaction. The end-to-end transaction technology eliminates inefficiencies, reduces costs, and invites participation from buyers and sellers regardless of size, geography or other previous barriers to entry. DebtMarket technology delivers transparency through a series of essential elements: an auction-style marketplace for competitive pricing; loan-level detail; direct contact between buyer and seller; a visible next-step process in the transaction; and a published fee structure.

“DebtMarket has the potential to transform the way institutions and institutional investors buy and sell consumer debt,” said Mike Sheridan, Co-founder and President of DebtMarket. “DebtMarket acts as a market stabilizer by providing access to buyers and sellers beyond companies’ traditional reach. This helps address the ‘price discovery’ problem that historically has discouraged so many small- and medium-size institutions and new investors from participating. DebtMarket’s disruptive technology pushes the envelope by handing control to buyers and sellers, which results in greater transparency.”

Industry observers suggest that DebtMarket will initially attract buyers and sellers of distressed debt, but that demand for a full-spectrum, technology-enabled solution is likely to extend to the market as a whole.

“The market today is distressed, with assets being sold at a discount — and that’s where an online marketplace like DebtMarket will generate its early successes,” said Jim Jones, former CEO of Residential Capital, Inc. (ResCap), the real estate finance arm of GMAC, and one-time head of consumer credit at both Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Historically, securitization has provided debt originators and portfolio investors with the information they required to make a buy/sell decision. “The difference today is there is no securitization taking place,” Jones said. “The DebtMarket platform assimilates the same type of information buyers and sellers need and provides it via a transparent medium. The result is that buyers and sellers can be more confident that their bid will be evaluated on an equal footing with others. That’s what transparency is all about.”

Walchek and Sheridan began testing the DebtMarket model in July 2008, when they launched a beta to address a single asset class – auto loans. Since then, GDNAuto has transformed the way auto dealerships and financial institutions trade as much as $ 30 billion a year in subprime auto debt. The platform’s success within the auto finance realm has led to a number of significant partnerships between the newly dubbed DebtMarket and auto finance institutions and affiliated service companies.

That continues today with the announcement of a definitive agreement with Frazer Computing, Inc., a Canton, N.Y.-based provider of dealer management software, to incorporate certain features of the DebtMarket platform into its dealership offerings. Frazer is one of the industry’s largest DMS providers, with 4,700 active users, most of which are independent dealers [see the news release, “DebtMarket Signs Partnership Agreement with Frazer Computing”]. DebtMarket said it intends to pursue similar relationships across the broad consumer credit landscape.

About DebtMarket

DebtMarket (http://www.debtmarket.com) is the world’s first automated marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of loan portfolios. The innovative DebtMarket technology platform delivers price transparency, process automation and direct buyer/seller communication in a secure online environment.

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