Capital Markets

Reduced exposure to fraud and financial crimes. Higher detection rates. Fewer false positives. And a deeper understanding of the nature of fraud and operational risks you face. Our capital markets software delivers proven surveillance and fraud solutions for:

• Unauthorized/rogue trading. Monitor more transactions in less time and spot suspicious trades that would otherwise go unnoticed – all while reducing trading losses and regulatory fines.
• Market abuse. Adopt superior surveillance techniques so you can detect and prevent market abuse across all trading desks.
• Anti-money laundering. Detect, investigate and report on potential illicit activity using data and information from your fraud and security systems to reduce technology and investigation costs.
• Payments fraud. Find payments fraud faster by scoring 100 percent of all transaction types in real time, for all your lines of business.
• FATCA and customer due diligence. Fulfill your compliance obligations for FATCA and any other regulatory mandates while managing costs.

Better forward-looking projections of your capital requirements and its availability. Transparent data, robust analytics, a scalable, technology-driven approach. End-to-end processes that deliver a comprehensive market risk analysis, enabling confident compliance. And risk-adjusted performance management (RAPM) that provides full regulatory transparency while aligning executive decisions on both risk and reward. Our capital markets software offers:

• The ability to accommodate both IMA and SA calculations.
• An architecture that can handle the large volume of valuations and reconciliations required to determine the appropriate IMA-related profit and loss attribution.
• Seamless integration of new required data sets (including the relevant sensitivities) under SA into our risk calculation engine and visual reporting capabilities.
• The ability to accommodate additional IT, finance, risk and resource burdens that accompany FRTB compliance.

A single data management platform for risk, regulatory compliance, fraud and operations. High-quality data that’s consistent, accurate, verifiable and up-to-date. Less time spent managing data, and more time spent exploring new ideas and opportunities. SAS offers the most comprehensive data management capabilities available, including:

• Data quality. Ensure clean, reliable data.
• Data access. Get the data you need, when you need it, wherever it resides.
• Event stream processing. Derive immediate analytic insights from the real-time data streaming into your firm.
• Master data management. Merge core data assets from across the firm into a unified, trusted view.
• Data governance. Develop a consistent set of policies and processes for all your corporate information.
• Data federation. Simplify administration and security with virtual data environment.

More accurate, precise insights based on all available data. Fast answers to even the most complex questions – no IT assistance required. Real-time access, via PC or tablet, to insights based on the latest data. We deliver unmatched data visualization capabilities for:

• Big data analytics. Tackle your most difficult and challenging business problems using high-performance analytics to get timely and accurate insights using data mining and predictive analytics, text mining, forecasting and optimization on big data.
• Real-time visualization. Visually explore and analyze large data sets – with millions to billions of rows of data – in seconds. Automatic charting capabilities enable fast, easy creation of box plots, correlations, binning and distributions, word clouds and network diagrams (for unstructured data), etc.
• Sentiment analysis. Understand customers’ sentiments about your firm with real-time analysis of social data streams.
• Risk aggregation. Aggregate risk exposures and interactively analyze, explore and drill down to business unit, desk, portfolio, instrument or horizon levels.
• Trading surveillance. Analyze data in seconds, and explore the results visually so you can spot trends and patterns easily and identify instances that require further analysis.