The HSBC Horizon: Issue 3

Welcome to the HSBC Horizon: Issue 3

Welcome to The HSBC Horizon, a news series curated for HSBC by SAS. These installments are designed to keep HSBC colleagues in the loop about our partnership investments, provide expert insights on the current banking landscape and ensure HSBC are on the pulse of upcoming digital trends!

Introducing Hugo, your HSBC Customer Success Manager

Hello HSBC colleagues! I’m Hugo, your Customer Success Manager at SAS. I’ve spent over 25 years in the technology sector and over half of these at SAS so I know our products and our people well.

My role is simple; to help the Bank, through better adoption and usage, get more value from your SAS software. This means bringing the right people from SAS at the right time to help us do this and being an advocate for you in SAS.

I look forward to connecting with HSBC SAS users across the globe to help you achieve your goals and objectives.

It would also be great to hear from you through the global pulse survey.

Get in touch with Hugo

HSBC & SAS: Our Partner Story

SAS & HSBC share over 30 years’ of partnership. From reducing loss collections to accelerating innovation credit control, the following video maps out the key successes that have arisen from our journey together, celebrating a history of collaboration and innovation.

SAS Announcements from Innovate

Our global tour, SAS Innovate, kicked off in Vegas! We saw many exciting new features come out and these are some of the ones we thought would interest HSBC the most.

The SAS roadmap for GenAI, which explored important topics like the need for responsible innovation to create trustworthy and ethical AI.
SAS Co-pilot, which introduced copilots to us as the personal assistant to help you improve work-related productivity.
Integrating synthetic data generation in machine learning modeling pipelines, which discussed the capabilities of synthetic data generation and our hosted solution to it, SAS Data Maker.

Some of the other key announcements and presentations you should check out, include:

The opening session, which explored the new announcements and innovations.
The general session, which talked about breakthroughs with SAS Viya and different customer success stories.
The closing session, which shared how we’re working with partners to help customers achieve more.

Watch the Livestream

Leigh Cullen and Jon Leirer presenting SAS Copilot: GenAI productivity tools to help you use SAS Viya & to further democratize analytics

Shawn Pecze and Natalya Spicer discuss Integrating Synthetic Data Generation in Machine Learning Modeling Pipelines

Partnership Headlines

HSBC/SAS Key Events

AI & MRM Connect

Lead by top industry experts and customer speakers, the AI & MRM Connection explored the cutting-edge trends in AI Risk Management and Model Risk Management (MRM). Julian Phillips, Global lead for MRM and AI risk management at HSBC, joined The Bank of England to discuss how regulation such as SS1/23 can serve as a catalyst for innovation. This was followed by Alex Roberts, UK Head of MRM at HSBC, who joined Nationwide and Aldermore bank to discuss what the future might look like for AI & MRM teams.

Innovate on Tour London

A highlight of Innovate on Tour in London was listening to the exciting panel debate on “Fighting AI with AI”, a discussion on combatting fraud in the digital age. Richard Clarke, leader of the Global Fraud Analytics Team at HSBC was joined by Deborah Shakespeare, Microsoft, Nikil Mathur, Deloitte, Stephen Dalton, Cifas, and Christen Kirchner, SAS. They explored the current fraud landscape, delving into the various challenges and emerging trends in fraud prevention across different industries. Some key takeaways were how people can harness the power of AI and data to combat fraud and the importance of cross-industry data sharing.

Credit week

HSBC joined SAS at the annual Credit Week event in Celtic Manor, Wales. A key moment of the event was Mike Roberts, Head of Unsecured Retail Risk, joining Mark Thundercliffe, Former CRO at HSBC & Virgin Money, and Jayne Findlay, Global Account Executive at SAS, to discuss how enhanced data analytics is the answer to modernizing decision making on consumer risk.

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Global GenAI Research: China leads on adoption followed by UK

A new global study has revealed that:

China leads the way for GenAI adoption, followed by the UK and the US.

SAS commissioned Coleman Parkes Research Ltd to investigate how organisations are using GenAI and the challenges they’re facing, with results based on responses from 1,600 decision makers across key global markets.

Business decision makers in China report that 83% of their organisations are using the technology. This is followed by the UK (70%) and the US (65%). But organisations in the US are ahead in terms of maturity and having fully implemented GenAI technologies at 24% compared to China’s 19%, and the UK’s 11%.

Read the full report here and we have provided an interactive data dashboard that you can use to see results for the banking sector.

Use the interactive data dashboard