With more than 30 years of experience, SWISSRISK Financial Systems GmbH headquartered in Frankfurt/Germany has emerged as a leading software provider for the financial industry. For quite some time now, SWISSRISK provides innovative and state-of-the-art solutions in the areas of Issuance, Trading and Market Making, same as in the field of Financial Messaging & Workflow. SWISSRISK currently serves more than 100 financial institutions with the majority in German speaking countries as well as in Luxembourg. Due to recent customer requirements SWISSRISK Financial Systems has widened its solution portfolio and developed a solution for the automated processing of any kind of exceptions and investigations together with Commerzbank AG, one of German's market leading banks. This solution, branded as "FinTRACE" has been accredited with the SWIFT-label for SWIFTNet Exceptions & Investigations and has already been implemented in projects. SWISSRISK Financial System seeks to expand its market leading position in this area significantly reinforcing its activities in this business segment.

Mr. Georg Sauberer, aged 42, brings to SWISSRISK a sound expertise in banking and financial software sales and regional management. With this background he proves an excellent understanding of the customers' business and technology issues.

SWISSRISK Financial Systems has appointed Georg Sauberer as Area Manager Financial Messaging & Workflow. He will be in charge of expanding the respective business for SWISSRISK on a global basis with main focus on the EMEA-region.

„With his unique network and knowledge in financial software industry having held senior positions at several companies Georg is best positioned for this role. We are delighted he is joining out team" says Andreas Wagner, Managing Director of SWISSRISK Financial Systems.

"Today's current market requirements are best-of-breed software solutions coming from an experienced and reliable vendors with a long-term strategy. The package I found at SWISSRISK's has immediately convinced me - and I am looking very forward to further developing the company's business success closely working with customers and partners" adds Georg Sauberer.

"Our customers tell us that the manual processing of exception cases is not only extremely expensive, but bears enormous operational risk. Therefore, we do appreciate the SWIFT-initiative around exceptions & investigations and have adapted our solutions accordingly. We are extraordinarily proud that this is honored from the market and that our customers acknowledge the added-value they are getting using our solutions" says Dirk Vesper, VP Product Management at SWISSRISK Financial Systems.