Credit & Management Systems Teams with Rundt's for Mitigating Country Risk

LAKE BLUFF, IL ? Credit & Management Systems, Inc. (CMS), a leading provider of credit and collection software and ASP solutions for business-to-business relationships, and S. J. Rundt & Associates, Inc. (Rundt’s), a leading provider of country risk analysis, have entered into a strategic alliance for the purpose of integrating Rundt’s Country Rating directly into CMS’s system offerings, principally the Corporate Credit Manager system. This alliance enhances CMS’s credit scoring capabilities by automatically incorporating country risk for short-term trade credit into CMS’s scoring models, enabling CMS clients’ to better manage their worldwide accounts.

“Managing international trade and credit profitably today requires more alertness and more timely and reliable information than ever before. This partnership with CMS enables us to address credit managers’ needs to quickly and intelligently manage global credit where our country risk can be incorporated seamlessly in credit management and decision support tools,” said Hans Belcsak, President of S.J Rundt & Associates, Inc. “We will provide the Financial Executive’s Country Risk Alert integrated with CMS. The Alert is published three times annually, with intermittent updates. The ratings are numerical along with recent change indications and short term outlook.”

“This alliance with Rundt’s continues our partnership drive with third party data providers and other scoring methodologies to complement our software offerings. As companies grow their worldwide sales, country risk becomes a more critical element in the credit decision process, leading to higher profits, competitive advantages, and safer investments around the world,” said John Sargent, President and CEO of Credit & Management Systems, Inc. “Incorporating country risk into CMS’s automated scoring systems, particularly from a highly respected firm such as Rundt’s, makes decisions on global accounts more consistent and reliable.”

This alliance is effective immediately and available to new and existing clients of both Credit & Management Systems, Inc. and S.J. Rundt’s Associates, Inc.