Kamakura Corporation

Kamakura Corporation is a global financial software company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

It specializes in software and data for risk management for banking, insurance and investment businesses.

The company was founded in 1990 by its current CEO and Chairman Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, and as of 2019 Kamakura had served more than 330 clients in 47 countries.

[1] Cornell professor Robert A. Jarrow, co-creator of the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework for pricing interest rate derivatives and the reduced form Jarrow–Turnbull credit risk models employed for pricing credit derivatives, serve as the company's Director of Research.

In 2008, Kamakura was named one of the top three worldwide financial information vendors in a Risk Technology 2008 survey.

The Kamakura Troubled Company index measures the percentage of 39,000 public firms in 76 countries that have an annualized one-month default risk of over one percent.