Limitless Potential

Len Laufer Chief Executive Officer

Michael Heller President

Argus sees the strength of its employees as its greatest asset in both internal interactions as well as external relationships with clients. At Argus, we invest heavily in the professional and personal skills of our employees. We know that exceptional talent is critical to continuing to grow our business. It is our employees’ professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence that have led us to become one of the leading information, scoring solutions, and advisory services companies. These qualities are vital to our continued success. At Argus, we rank our values as the highest priority, placing them at the very core of our business to guide us through our daily operations, within Argus and with our clients. Our highly qualified and dedicated employees combine expertise with superb analytical thinking to deliver the services our clients expect. Their diversity makes Argus a very exciting place to work. We seek strong contributors who can add to the richness and depth of talent in our rapidly growing firm. We invite you to join our exceptional team.

A message from our executive management

Argus’s success is primarily thanks to its employees, who utilize their expertise to further the company’s interests.

Our professionals have substantial industry knowledge, typically greater than fifteen years of experience, in providing solutions to the financial services sector. Clients benefit from our specialization, depth of industry expertise, and ability to offer strategic and tactical solutions. We are known for our unique ability to blend the highly technical, data-centered aspects of our projects with expert communication and business knowledge. We maintain offices in New York, San Francisco, and London and employ approximately 120 professionals.

About Argus

Argus Information and Advisory Services was founded in 1997 and focuses on providing competitive benchmarking, scoring solutions, analytics, and customized services to financial services institutions in North and South America and Europe. By addressing complex challenges in marketing, risk, and strategy, Argus helps clients maximize the value of their businesses. Additionally, we offer M&A advisory services and a suite of product solutions to a client base that includes credit and debit card issuers, retail banks and other consumer financial services providers, payment processors, insurance companies, and other industry stakeholders.

Our products and services assist financial institutions in making riskmanagement decisions that increase their profitability. Our focus is helping clients interpret the tradeoffs among price, product, risk, and customer behavior, which enables them to make qualified decisions that contribute to their future success. Argus has worked with most of the leading financial institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, including: • Nearly

all of the top 30 US credit card issuers • Nine of the top 10 credit card issuers in the United Kingdom • Eight of the largest Canadian financial services institutions • Top retail banks in the United States and United Kingdom

What we do

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largest global payment processors • Large insurance companies in the United States and United Kingdom Argus provides clients with:

Syndicated Studies

Industry-wide account data-driven studies that provide an external perspective by compiling and reporting payment, usage, behavior, risk, channel, product, and pricing data across competitors.

Product Solutions

A suite of software applications and data warehousing solutions that help manage and measure the performance and scoring of their banking customers.

Advisory Services

In-depth and tactical consulting assignments that assist our clients with practical and actionable strategies.

Are you ambitious, motivated, determined, and looking for a place in the financial industry where your quantitative skills are greatly rewarded? Are you seeking an opportunity to advance quickly within a group of diverse, supportive team members? Do you want to be mentored by top professionals who care about your success? Then Argus Information and Advisory Services might be the place for you. If you’re a top performing student who will soon graduate from a leading academic institution, we can give you the opportunity to realize your potential and achieve your goals. Our graduate programs offer first-class experience and training where you will develop valuable skills, gain industry expertise, and learn from colleagues and clients as you contribute to a dynamic team. Our thorough training program provides you with the fundamentals needed for success; enabling you to directly apply your skills to developing real business solutions.

Our introductory training courses include: • Departmental overview • Data analysis • Credit card industry • Basics of payment processing • Statistical modeling • Database programming • Benchmarking • Data validation and processing • Business communications • Presentation skills

At Argus, you will have world-class training, support and development opportunities – all designed to build on your unique talents and drive your success. You will also work with some of the most successful and visionary people in the industry, in a highly collaborative environment.

Why join us

Argus‘s clients are among the world’s largest financial service institutions. Our unique mix of services and strong client base provide an excellent opportunity for learning and growing. We continually seek dynamic individuals interested in helping us build Argus into the finest provider of information solutions for the financial services industry.

The career path at Argus follows this trajectory:

Analyst

Senior Analyst

Manager

Senior Manager

Vice President

Prinicipal

Managing Director

As a recent graduate you will start with us as an analyst, where you’ll quickly build experience and industry knowledge and become integrated into our company’s culture. Career progression through the company can be quick and is dependent upon demonstrating continuous high levels of performance. We offer the following programs to attract the best talent from the widest range of backgrounds.

Internship Programs

Our internship programs at the analyst levels offer challenges and real business experience. You’ll gain meaningful insight into the different areas of our businesses, while participating in our unique collaborative culture. You’ll meet and network with your peers and Argus employees at all levels, and develop a skill set that will distinguish you from others.

Full-Time Analyst

As an analyst, you will be working in a team environment and will be tasked with handling daily team/project objectives. In order to reach the set goals, analysts actively manage their own time and execute assignments in a selfdirected, proactive manner that allows them to deliver accurate work. This includes formulating approaches to meet objectives and identifying implications of alternative methods as well as developing creative, actionable, and efficient solutions to resolve any challenges that may arise. After having consistently

Building a career with us

If you want to perform in a fast-paced, innovative business environment, we offer exciting career paths suited for your needs. Within consulting, our three primary areas of business include Syndicated Studies, Product Solutions, and Advisory Services. We also offer opportunities within our Data Operations, Information Technology, Business Development, and Finance Departments. Whichever area you choose, you’ll contribute to projects that have a measurable impact on our business, while building your own expertise.

Career Path

Argus offers highly motivated and talented individuals the chance to advance quickly. The accelerated growth rate of our business provides many new and challenging opportunities for people with the right skill set and motivation.

Specialized Career Path

Argus strives to place new hires into opportunities that will enable them to best leverage their skills and experience and reach their greatest potential.

Development and Training

Working at Argus, you learn about the financial services industry, refine your critical thinking and analysis skills, and enhance your technical skills using the latest tools and technologies available.

Culture and People

The Argus environment is dynamic, diverse, and team-oriented. Our goal is to recruit and retain the most talented people by committing to creating an atmosphere in which people grow and succeed. We believe that people are our most important resources.

Compensation and Benefits

In addition to generous compensation packages and the opportunity for an end-of-year performance based bonus, Argus provides a competitive package of employee benefits, including Medical and Dental Insurance, Paid Vacation, Profit Sharing and 401k Savings Plans, Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Outside the analytics

demonstrated the initiative to take on additional tasks, an analyst may be ready to transition to a senior analyst role in an average of two years. Argus understands the importance of offering competitive benefits to its employees. We offer benefit programs that encourage wellness, individual growth, and incentives to succeed.

Join our team!

We will be recruiting at select campuses throughout the United States and United Kingdom. We look for candidates who have a zest for problem solving, demonstrate exceptional analytical abilities, are effective team players, and have outstanding communication skills. If you’re interested in becoming part of the Argus team, please refer to your University’s on-line recruiting portal for instructions on how to apply to our job postings. We require a copy of your resume along with a cover letter, SAT, and GPA scores. Upon selection, you will be invited to an on-site strategic interview that involves case-and resume-based questions and have an opportunity to meet with various staff from our firm. To find out what schools we will be participating at, please visit www.argusinformation.com Argus New York Office 50 Main Street, Suite 1175 White Plains, NY 10606 Argus San Francisco Office 595 Market Street, Suite 2100 San Francisco, CA 94105 Argus United Kingdom Office John Stow House 18 Bevis Marks, 4th Floor London EC3A 7JB

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