Tag: fraud prevention

Greg Henderson 0
Combating fraud in South Carolina

Several weeks ago, South Carolina was the victim of what some experts believe to be the largest cyber-attack against a state tax department in history. Approximately 3.6 million personal South Carolina income tax returns were exposed, and nearly 657,000 businesses compromised, in an international hacking attack. Coincidentally, SAS and the SC

Alison Bolen 0
The future of fraud investigation is information based

In many ways, the early 1990s were the heyday of Special Investigation Units (SIU) for insurance companies, says Tim Wolfe, Director of Special Investigations for CNA, a commercial property and casualty insurance provider. Around that time, states started requiring companies to report suspicious claims and insurers increased staff to meet those

David Stewart 0
Financial Crimes Convergence: Tipping Point

For several years, the financial services industry has debated the merits of converging anti-fraud and anti-money laundering processes under “financial crimes.” In December 2010, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and Ernst & Young published a joint survey of 250 global respondents from financial services, law enforcement and

Waynette Tubbs 1
If only you knew what I was thinking …

Manya Mayes, a Solutions Architect and Chief Text Mining Strategist at SAS, just gave a wonderful presentation about using SAS Text Miner with SAS Content Categorization. Both products have been used successfully by SAS customers for some time. But Manya and our clients are now using them to solve old