Clark Abrahams
Clark Abrahams was the Global Marketing Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, at SAS Institute Inc., where his responsibilities spanned product development and marketing. A former Chief Risk Officer, author, and inventor, he is a 2011 NACD Governance Fellow and serves on the Board of Social Compact, and is a committee member on OCEG's Leadership Council. With a career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Abrahams is a passionate proponent of the fusion of analytics and judgment for better business decisions. A San Francisco native, he graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with degrees in mathematics and computer science, and he holds a Master of Science Degree in engineering from Stanford University. Mr. Abrahams has been awarded two patents and has four patents pending.
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Fair Lending Compliance: Intelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management
By Clark Abrahams and Mingyuan (Sunny) Zhang
Illustrates the importance of the interdependency between HMDA/fair lending compliance and credit risk management. Demonstrates the need for development of proper risk measurement and feedback mechanisms and continuous monitoring to ensure fair lending compliance and accurate credit risk evaluation.
Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors
By Clark Abrahams and Mingyuan (Sunny) Zhang
Provides a framework on how financial institutions can improve their credit assessment system. Authors Clark Abrahams and Mingyuan Zhang present a new credit risk framework for small business and consumer lending and explain how it can be implemented to improve a financial institution's credit assessment system.
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Ron Klimberg, PhD, is a professor at the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Robert N. Rodriguez retired from SAS in 2018 after serving as a senior director in research and development. Bob received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a research statistician at General Motors Research Laboratories before joining SAS.
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