Everywhere you turn, fraud is in the headlines. It doesn’t matter if you get your news online, on the TV or from the newspaper. There seems to be a new fraud story every day of another scheme. Are the current economic conditions pushing people over the edge? Is greed to
Is it even possible to reduce fraud? This pointed question was asked Tuesday at the SAS Media Day fraud panel. After all, today’s fraudsters are smart, global, networked and hi-tech. As soon as you catch one, another steps in. And once you put a system in place to combat a
Decision management expert James Taylor wins the prize for most prolific blogger from The Series. James gives us thorough summaries of great presentations on: Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making. Analytics & Innovation, Analytics in the Executive Suite. SAS Media Day customer panels on fraud detection. and optimization. By
Analytics maven (and SAS product marketing manager) Tammi Kay George hosted the panel on optimization that Anne-Lindsay Beall wrote about from Monday’s international SAS Media Day, which preceded The Series in Las Vegas (as it does every year). If you read TK's blog, you know that Tammi Kay's insights on
I've been catching up on my reading on fraud strategy recently (I was asked to contribute a couple of pages to a new book on the subject). And whilst there have been some great strides forward on the technology front, it seems to me that we still haven't fully faced
In the UK there is debate forming about how best to target benefits on the most deserving cases without building a dependency culture. For some time the UK Government has been using 'means tests' to ascertain whether a claimant needs State support, or whether they have independent resources that they
On the 15th March 2007 the UK Government (through the Attorney General) gave its response (pdf) to the Fraud Review Final Report, which represents the first comprehensive and holistic review of fraud and anti fraud efforts in England and Wales. In short, the Government has accepted all the major recommendations
