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China Merchants Bank Leads the Credit Card Industry with SAS®   »
This pioneer of China’s credit card market issues the largest volume of standard international credit cards in China, and the CMB Credit Card Center uses SAS to help manage risks.
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SAS Offers New Fraud Framework
Featuring SAS® Social Network Analysis »

To fight fraud effectively, organizations must continually improve the monitoring of customer behavior across multiple accounts and systems. This new framework includes components that support detection and alert generation, alert management and case management, and includes the new SAS Social Network Analysis solution.
SAS in Top Three in Financial Crimes
Risk Management Systems »

Chartis Research noted SAS’ strengths in credit risk (particularly retail banking) and operational risk as key differentiators. The report also highlighted that “the SAS Financial Crime solutions integrate analytics, advanced decisioning capabilities, and sophisticated rules into a single Enterprise Financial Crimes Platform.”
SAS® Business Analytics Vital to Competitiveness »
New enhancements to SAS data integration, analytics and reporting provide businesses with the foundation to survive in the recession and position them to surge in a recovery.
Resources
Beyond Spreadsheets: Risks
and Productivity in the Real World »

Listen to this Webcast discussing new research from Aberdeen Group, which examines the role for spreadsheets, and the barriers and difficulties related to data quality, data access, and employee productivity. The research shows that best-in-class SMBs were using BI tools at a far greater rate than all other companies.
“Credit Risk Assessment” Advocates
New Lending System  »

Use analytics to enable performance improvements in your anti-money laundering monitoring solution: reduce false positives, mitigate risk of existing monitoring system(s), refine and optimize scenarios, incorporate Know Your Customer risk scoring, and much more.
SAS® Analytics for Financial Crimes »
Use analytics to enable performance improvements in your anti-money laundering monitoring solution: reduce false positives, mitigate risk of existing monitoring system(s), refine and optimize scenarios, incorporate Know Your Customer risk scoring, and much more.
SAS®: A Point of View on Market Risk VaR »
Easy to understand and conceptually straightforward, VaR has long been an industry standard for estimating market risk. The means by which it is calculated and used in practice to manage risk, however, present a number of modeling, data management and reporting challenges. This paper addresses ways in which SAS can help clients overcome these challenges.
Events
Exploring Risk Visualization and JMP®
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Talking Points
Not Really an $11 Trillion Hole »
How does our current net worth look with respect to the long-term trend? John Sall, co-founder and Executive Vice President at SAS, also leads the JMP business division. In his JMP® Blog post, Sall uses JMP to analyze Federal Reserve data to provide a visual perspective to the financial crisis.
Analytics Goes Social »
Traditional approaches have inhibited the ability to visualize how relationships are taking place. Through Social Network Analysis, companies now will be able to pick up on subtle and illegal behaviors that previously may have gone undetected.
Solvency II: Compliance or competitive advantage? »
Although full compliance with Solvency II isn’t required until 2012, Stuart Rose, Product Marketing Manager for SAS, says now is the time to implement a risk management strategy based on a comprehensive data management platform and consolidate modeling capabilities with a flexible repository in order to ensure compliance, stability and competitive advantage.
Training
Credit Risk Modeling Using SAS® »
Struggling with today’s risk management challenges? Learn how to improve your credit risk modeling with new and advanced techniques. Register today for the June 1-4 course in San Francisco!
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