An Inside Look at Compliance
As a former regulator and a consultant to banks for the past 14 years, Matt Schriner, Business Director for SAS Fair Banking, has seen his share of compliance systems and compliance failures. Find out what he has to say about efficiently maintaining compliance.

Financial Experts Explore Evolving Global Economy at SAS Financial Services Conference
The rapidly changing financial landscape was the focus of the 2006 SAS Financial Services Executive Conference. Leading financial experts gathered to share information about the current state of the financial services industry and to coordinate for anticipated future changes in the volatile financial sector. Get a recap of the event from this conference summary.

Anti-Money Laundering Conference Builds Team Spirit for Compliance with USA PATRIOT Act Provisions
As the IT industry leader in anti-money laundering (AML) software solutions, SAS hosted a breakfast seminar during the recent 11th Annual International Money Laundering Conference & Exhibition. The guest speaker was Tim O’Neal Lorah, Global Head of AML for Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is one of the most progressive investment institutions in the area of AML surveillance. Lorah, along with David Stewart, Director of SAS Anti-Money Laundering, provided information about the latest technologies for account assessment and fielded questions from conference participants. Read more about their presentation.

Anti-Money Laundering Reappraised: The Benefits of a Holistic, Risk-Based Approach
What is the nature of the current regulatory environment? What are the characteristics that some of the first-generation approaches to AML have in common? What are some of the payoffs of a holistic, risk-based approach to AML? How can you consolidate these benefits into a competitive advantage for your company? Register now to download your free copy of this white paper from SAS and Lepus.

Credit Scoring Vulnerability to Fair Lending Risk
Credit scoring models can assist bankers with credit decisions and enhance compliance with fair lending laws and regulations. This white paper examines the current deployment of credit scoring models, the challenges banks often encounter and future credit scoring trends. You will learn about common types of models, how to measure their performance and the impact of regulations on credit scoring. Download this free white paper.

Banking on Intelligence – Increasing Share of Wallet and Managing Risk
In this special edition of sascom, you can find out how banks around the world are using SAS to achieve a 360-degree view of their customers and their organizations, as well as how they’re using information about what happened in the past to guide their actions in the future. These stories demonstrate beyond all reasonable doubt that in today’s competitive, high-risk world, intelligence is a bank’s greatest asset. Register now to access the full 27-page report.

U.S. Bank Enhances CRM Efforts with Great Success Using SASŪ
With more than 13 million consumer banking customers and 1 million business customers – not to mention more than 10,000 database variables and up to 16 million transactions a day – U.S. Bank needed to mine customer data efficiently and then deliver insights regularly across a variety of segments. To ensure success in those efforts, U.S. Bank chose SAS Customer Intelligence. Read the complete success story.

The Basel Culture Takes Root in Korea
With a customer base that includes approximately half of South Korea ’s adult population, Kookmin Bank (KB) has a dominant position in the country’s banking sector, the third largest in Asia. KB chose SAS software to integrate its credit risk management procedures, which had previously been separated from the business lines. KB separated the credit risk management function from the marketing operation to efficiently manage complicated credit risks. Read more

Woori Bank Reduces Operational Risk with SAS®
Woori is “the reigning bank” in Korea with a history and tradition spanning more than 100 years. The bank currently has more than 14 million customers and 10,000 employees, and an extensive domestic sales network as well as an overseas presence in selected regions of the world. With globalization, Woori needed to align to the international standards of the G10 group represented on the Basel Committee. Woori chose SAS OpRisk Management, largely on the basis of SAS software’s system performance, open architecture and extensibility. Read the complete story online.

Turning Customer Value into Competitive Advantage in Retail Banking Executive Forum
Wednesday, July 26
New York
SAS will team up with executives from cutting-edge banks to discuss key findings from a new SAS and PRG banking survey and resulting white paper, Getting it Right: Turning Customer Value into Competitive Advantage in Retail Banking, and the critical role that customer knowledge plays in differentiating your bank from the competition. Thought leaders will present ideas and best practices, followed by a roundtable discussion. Click here to prequalify for attendance to this complimentary executive forum.

Executive Summit 2006: Achieving Growth, Managing Risk
Sept. 17–19
Palm Springs, CA
At this exclusive, invitation-only Bank Systems & Technology executive summit, attendees will gain insight into planning and strategy for critical banking and technology issues in an intimate environment of interactive peer-to-peer discussion and expert analysis. Topics may include winners and losers in an integrated payments world; riding the regulatory wave; holistic risk management; information security; and more. Read more

SAS Presents BetterManagement LIVE Business Conference
Oct. 25–26
Las Vegas
Join industry thought leaders and your peers to learn how leading organizations are evolving their business practices and enhancing performance through more informed, forward-looking strategies and improved processes. Industry focus tracks include banking and insurance. Find out more.

New and Updated Guides for SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform
Business intelligence guides offer a quick overview of the architecture behind the SAS Intelligence Platform, simple installation instructions and the best way to administer your enterprise system. In this release, you get a new guide for performing security-related administrative tasks and a separate document of pre-installation checklists. The new and updated guides are available in SAS OnlineDoc. Read more

Business Intelligence Competency Center: A Team Approach to Maximizing Competitive Advantage
How do you implement a comprehensive business intelligence strategy that supports organizational goals and addresses the information requirements from the business? A growing number of successful organizations are answering that question by creating a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC). This book covers the process of planning, setting up and running a BICC while also exploring the benefits and potential pitfalls, and reviewing best practices. Read more

Tell Us Your BICC Story… If you’ve realized the value of a BICC and have started to build one internally at your organization, tell us about it. If you’re willing to share your insights as a panelist during a live Web seminar at SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, and receive a free BICC orientation service, please e-mail Barbara Anthony. For more information on this service, read our brochure.

SAS® for Mixed Models, Second Edition
The long-awaited, up-to-date guide to mixed models using SAS has arrived! Discover the latest capabilities available for a variety of applications featuring the MIXED, GLIMMIX and NLMIXED procedures in this valuable edition of the comprehensive mixed models guide for data analysis, completely revised and updated for SAS®9. Read more

How to Set a User or System Environment Variable Outside Command Context Created Within Windows
Environment variables created by a set command within a Command or CMD session are not available as user or system-level environment variables outside the scope of the session in which they are created. Read more

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