In today’s world of financial services, a well-crafted decisioning system is paramount, whether you're dealing with credit risk, fraud prevention, financial compliance, or any other critical aspect. Occasionally, financial services organizations decide whether to buy a risk decisioning system or build one using in-house resources. This quandary demands careful consideration
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The 2023 International Congress of Actuaries (ICA2023) brought together industry leaders and actuaries worldwide to explore the challenges and opportunities for actuaries. Over the years, SAS has emerged as a variance and regression analysis software, revolutionising the actuarial field. Since then, it has evolved into SAS Viya 4.0, a cloud-native
A customer's initial onboarding journey is often the most interaction they will ever have with a company. This series of touchpoints provide the applicant with their first insight into what being a customer will be like. Unfortunately, disjointed and unconnected processes often create gaps for customers to fall through or
Fraud remains a huge challenge for governments and inspectors at all levels, as fraudsters today are more successful than ever. Because many cases are so difficult to detect, there is tremendous potential for technologies such as analytics and AI to support investigations. The social inspectorates in Belgium have recently set
It’s a challenging time to be a risk manager. The world is facing a global climate crisis, enduring the worst economic downturn since the great depression, war and a recovery period from a global pandemic. In addition to these challenges, changes in customer behaviour and expectations give financial services no
COVID-related lockdowns around the world resulted in changes to the way that we work, study and live. Some of these changes were positive: better access to remote learning and working for those who want it, for example. However, there were other less positive developments, including a huge rise in cybercrime.
Within both the business world and our personal lives, data is becoming increasingly intrinsic to everything we do. Whether it’s picking which restaurant to order from, a tailored advert or figuring out the quickest route home, data is a part of our everyday decision making. For businesses, the value of
One of the lesser-known effects of COVID-19 has been on analytical risk models. Around the world, the pandemic has created a new reality. The situation became so unpredictable that financial institutions’ risk models lost their ability to make accurate predictions. Past performance, it turned out, was very definitely not a
Our key workers deserve more than just a round of applause — so why do we still expect the people who have the least to pay the most for banking services? To most people, social justice and the banking sector probably seem like strange bedfellows. Over the past couple of
In 2020 alone, the global losses from natural disasters amounted to a staggering US$210 billion! This is just short of the 2020 GDP of Portugal, or a little more than twice the market cap of HSBC, Europe’s largest bank. The causes of these huge losses include drought-fuelled wildfires, severe floods