SAS Upgrades Risk And Compliance Solution

The service is designed to help banks better deal with changing regulatory standards.

Cary, N.C.-based SAS announced the latest version of its risk and compliance solution, which enable customers to integrate data management analytics and visualization, at the BAI Retail Delivery 2013 conference in Denver.

SAS High-Performance Risk, a financial portfolio management solution, has the capabilities to provide a consolidated view of risk using analytics derived from server grids, the company stated. Enhancements includes updated graphical interface with data from SAS Event Stream Processing Engine, along with customers access to accurate calculations of market risk, counterparty exposure, liquidity risk management, credit risk, stress testing and scenario analysis.

Visual on-demand risk analytics allow analysts to explore and monitor risk sources so that portfolio pricing and valuations can be performed directly in the solution with different pricing routines, said SAS.

The solution also acts as a risk aggregator by integrating and consolidating portfolios from risk analytic applications and individual exposures from trading desks, business units, counterparties or instrument types.

A new version of SAS Asset and Liability Management, a part of SAS Risk Management for Banking, was also announced. Enhancements include support of Basel III liquidity ratios and monitoring standards. Additionally, the latest version has included better business workflows for stress testing and reserves management and improved cash flow management.

“Global regulators demand improved risk data aggregation, liquidity risk management and stress testing so banks and capital market firms can properly measure performance against risk appetite and for regulatory reporting,” said David Wallace, global financial services marketing manager at SAS, in a statement.

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