NEW YORK, April 26--PRNewswire-AsiaNet/InfoQuest Reveleus(TM), a business of i-flex(R) solutions (Reuters: IFLX.BO & IFLX.NS) and a global provider of analytical applications for the financial services industry, announced that BMO Financial Group, one of the largest financial services providers in North America, has selected the Reveleus Basel II Solution. The solution will provide BMO with a complete set of rules, computation engines, business definitions and underlying data structures to help the bank accelerate compliance with the risk management requirements of the Basel II Accord. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's principal goals is to reduce risk in the financial system worldwide by aligning each bank's capital requirements to more accurately reflect its own credit, market and operational risks. "Banks are left with little choice but to adopt analytics that enable compliance with the Basel II capital adequacy requirements," commented Guillermo Kopp of TowerGroup, a leading research firm. "Basel II is driving a greater degree of convergence between banks' finance and risk departments to achieve a more unified understanding of risk. However, banks will face ongoing challenges to stay current with the ever-changing Basel approaches in different jurisdictions and must invest in flexible software solutions that address all of the above issues." BMO is planning an accelerated implementation of the Reveleus Basel II Solution at its Canadian offices, commencing in the second quarter of 2005. BMO will implement Reveleus to satisfy its multi-jurisdictional Basel requirements in Canada and internationally. Wendy Lockyer - Senior Vice President, Basel and InSight Initiatives at BMO Financial Group, said, "We chose Reveleus because of the pre-built nature of the solution, the fit with BMO's technology platform and Reveleus' commitment to the evolution of the product to meet BMO's ongoing needs and the Basel II marketplace." S. Ramakrishnan - CEO of Reveleus, said, "We are excited to begin this new partnership with BMO by helping them strategically address their Basel II requirements, ensuring that they meet current needs while building for the future. We are confident that BMO will gain a significant Total Cost of Ownership advantage through the implementation of Reveleus as the single solution across all jurisdictions." SOURCE: i-flex solutions CONTACT: NORTH AMERICA, Penney Richardson, +1-415-7718106, [email protected]; EUROPE, Sunil Robert, +91-09819670100, [email protected]; INDIA/ASPAC, Parvez Ahmad, +91-80-2208-7515, [email protected], or Ramya B S, +91-80-2208-7294, [email protected], all for Reveleus Web site: http://www.iflexsolutions.com --Distributed by AsiaNet (www.asianetnews.net)--