SAS Webinars for Banking

A series of thought-leadership webinars dedicated to participants in the banking industry.

On-Demand webinars

Alex Kwiatkowski introduces a series of thought-leadership webinars dedicated to the banking industry. Supported by colleagues, partners and guest speakers from the Analytics & AI community, Alex looks at the hottest trends shaping the future of retail banking including digitalisation, AI & Machine Learning, regulation and risk.

SAS is taking to the road across the world to ensure that organisations are data driven, have insight at their fingertips and are winning. Find out first hand from our experts who:

Share their real life best practices

Explain challenges and showcase new ways to approaches and solutions

Demonstrate technology and share hands-on tips for execution

Presenters


Alex Kwiatkowski
Advisory Industry Consultant: Financial Services, SAS

Alex Kwiatkowski is SAS’ Industry Lead for Banking in EMEA. His role centers on articulating and amplifying company strategy and point of view to senior financial executives, partners, media and influencers, along with creating relevant narratives and supporting content for thought-leadership purposes.

With a career spanning over 14 years in the financial services industry, and a decade spent in the fast-moving telco world before that, Alex is a veritable mine of significant and valuable knowledge. He is full of keen insights into how the sector must evolve, is blessed with a restless curiosity to explore and challenge traditional thinking, and possesses an unquenchable thirst for discovering new information – from the trivial to the revelatory – to help form his opinions. A regular speaker at major global industry conferences – including Asian Banker Summit, Retail Banking Europe, FT Middle East Banking Forum, and Retail Banking Asia – Alex is an energized and engaging keynote, willing to tackle the biggest and most controversial issues head-on.

On-Demand Webinars


Disruption, disturbance or distraction: predicting banking trends in 2018

A new year means new developments in the banking industry. This webinar considers the PESTEL factors influencing the sector's growth; explains the trends which emerged in 2017; highlights the developments which will characterize 2018; assesses if these trends will disrupt, disturb or distract market participants; contains a low probability/high impact 'wild card'; and ends with a rallying call to action.

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The digitalized development of banking (part 1)

Digitalization in banking needs to be performed from end-to-end, encompassing activities in the front-, middle-, and back-office, and underpinned/enabled by advanced analytical technologies.

This webinar, the first in a three-part series, focuses on the front office, where the bank/customer relationship is created, nurtured and cultivated. Using data-driven insights, improvements to both overall levels of client satisfaction and revenue from the provision of relevant products and services will occur.

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The digitalized development of banking (part 3)

Digitalization in banking needs to be performed from end-to-end, encompassing activities in the front-, middle-, and back-office, and underpinned/enabled by advanced analytical technologies. This webinar, the final instalment in a three-part series, focuses on the back office, where risk and regulatory reporting activities are performed.

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Accelerating the integration of risk and finance

The concept of an integrated risk and finance function is not all-new for 2018, and remains a work-in-progress for the banking industry. This webinar addresses how institutions can overcome organizational, operational and technological obstacles to become significantly better versions of themselves.

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Industry trends mid-year review

Gosh, how time flies. Before we know it, Christmas will be upon us, and we'll all be discussing the new John Lewis advert. But let's not worry about that right now. Instead, let's revisit the 2018 banking industry trends, and figure out if SAS's predictions are coming true.

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