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No matter how your financial institution prioritizes risk, SAS Risk solutions can help you establish a risk-aware culture, optimize capital and liquidity, and address changing regulatory requirements.
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SAS delivers innovative solutions that help with the management of regulation and optimization of your business to remain profitable and in compliance. This learning subscription teaches your team of system administrators, data analysts business analysts, and data scientists how to use the embedded data management, storage, and analytical capabilities of SAS Risk solutions.

Learn how to:
  • Implement and use key risk concepts, terminology, and functionality.
  • Execute fundamental tasks for preparing, configuring, and administrating SAS Risk solutions with the entire analytical value chain, from loading new data to creating reports.
  • Manage models and related risk objects to calculate expected credit loss.
  • Apply asset and liability management to improve compliance and instill powerful balance sheet management.
  • Deploy a broad range of scalable credit models to manage your portfolios.
  • Use enterprise stress testing to simulate multiple scenarios to produce faster results and make informed business decisions.
  • Execute the entire expected credit loss (ECL) process in a shorter time frame using a controlled, high-performance environment.
  • Proactively govern risk management processes to achieve business and regulatory goals.
  • Adopt a single integrated framework for IFRS 17 and Solvency II compliance.



  • Courses Included in Subscription

    Enterprise Stress Testing

    1
    • COURSE

      SAS® Model Implementation Platform: Solution Overview
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      This course prepares model implementation teams in financial institutions to conduct credit loss reserving and loan valuation to satisfy regulatory requirements, including IFRS9 and CECL.

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      SAS® Solution for Stress Testing: Solution Overview
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      This solution overview training for SAS Solution for Stress Testing prepares members of your organization's project team to be effective and informed participants in the requirements development and solution design phases of your implementation. The course includes demonstrations, and it teaches you key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Solution for Stress Testing. After completing the course, participants will be prepared to consider key business decisions.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    Credit Risk Management

    2
    • COURSE

      Using the SAS® Risk Engine Interface
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      SAS Risk Engine is an end-to-end risk calculator for a wide variety of risk applications, including market risk, credit risk, asset liability management, and risk aggregation. In this course, students learn how to evaluate portfolios and market states and run simulations using SAS Risk Engine and risk pipelines in examples, demonstrations, and practices. After they complete this course, students will be comfortable working with risk methods, model groups, and risk pipelines in the user interface.

      Note:This course focuses on using SAS Risk Engine via its interactive interface. Analysts who prefer using a programming approach should take the Programming with SAS® Risk Engine course.

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      Programming with SAS® Risk Engine
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      SAS Risk Engine is an end-to-end risk calculator for a wide variety of risk applications, including market risk, credit risk, asset liability management, and risk aggregation. In this course, students learn how to evaluate portfolios and market states and run simulations by using SAS Risk Engine in examples, demonstrations, and practices. After completing this course, students will be comfortable working with risk actions.

      Note: This course focuses on using SAS Risk Engine programmatically. Analysts who prefer using an interactive interface should take the Using the SAS® Risk Engine Interface course.

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      Using SAS® Risk Modeling
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      SAS Risk Modeling enables you to quickly and efficiently create analytical base tables that are used for developing credit scoring models. In this course, you learn how to create analytical base tables by calculating variables using multiple data sources. Also, you learn to use the Risk Modeling workspaces that are used for implementing models and monitoring their performance.

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      Solution Overview for SAS® Asset and Liability Management
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      SAS Asset and Liability Management is designed to manage both interest rate and funding liquidity risks. It also generates both contractual and behavioral (interest and capital) cash flows for a large set of interest-bearing accounts and instruments. This solution overview provides information about working in SAS Asset Liability and Management workspaces that are used for creating scenario and shock sets, importing business evolution plans, running calculations, and exploring reports.

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      Risk Modeling Add-on for SAS® Visual Machine Learning: Using Credit Scoring Nodes
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      This course provides an overview of the Risk Modeling nodes in SAS Visual Machine Learning. It prepares members of your organization to develop scorecards. The course includes hands-on demonstrations and teaches you key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to visual risk modeling.

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      Credit Scorecard Development and Implementation
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      This business-focused course provides a high-level introduction to credit risk management; detailed end-to-end methodology training for risk scorecard development for retail and SME portfolios; and discussions about scorecard implementation and risk strategy development and about scorecard and portfolio management reporting. The focus of the course is the development of application scorecards, but issues relating to behavior scorecard development are also explored. Detailed mechanics of scorecard development are covered, but more importantly, students learn to think critically about each phase and use a combination of business and statistical criteria to make better decisions. These objectives are reflected in three sections.

      Section 1, Introduction to Credit Risk: This section provides a high-level overview of the credit risk industry, risk management tools, and strategies. Students will understand the different uses of credit risk scorecards and learn industry terminology, as well as understand the main personas involved in successful credit scoring projects.

      Section 2, Risk Scorecard Development: Students learn how grouped-variable, points-based credit risk scorecards are developed, from the planning stages to delivery. The main focus is on business issues, but statistical aspects of scorecard development are also explored. Students learn practical tips and tricks for tasks such as variable binning, creating intelligent variables and scorecards, and using a wide variety of data sources.

      Section 3, Implementation and Maintenance: This section covers post-development activities, including setting cutoffs, developing strategies, and creating scorecard maintenance reports. Students will understand how scorecards are used to make better decisions, enabling them to build more relevant scorecards.

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      Credit Risk Modeling
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      In this course, students learn how to develop credit risk models in the context of the Basel guidelines. The course provides a sound mix of both theoretical and technical insights, as well as practical implementation details. These are illustrated by several real-life case studies and exercises.

      Please note: This course is not intended to teach credit risk modeling using SAS. Previous SAS software and SAS Enterprise Miner experience is helpful but not necessary.

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      Programming with SAS® Risk Dimensions®
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      This course provides training on SAS Risk Dimensions functionality, including creating a risk environment, mapping risk factors, assigning risk method programs, and running simulations.

    Using SAS Risk Stratum

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      Working with Models in SAS® Risk Stratum
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      In this hands-on course, risk modelers learn how to manage models and related risk objects. Updates to SAS code models and modeling systems used in the monthly production cycle are demonstrated and practiced. Related model risk objects such as risk scenarios and attribution templates are introduced and modified. Students will become comfortable working in SAS Risk Stratum work spaces that are used for updates and changes to statistical models.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


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      Data Preparation, Configuration, and Administration in SAS® Risk Stratum
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      This course introduces the solution administrator to the fundamental tasks for preparing, configuring, and administrating SAS Risk Stratum. The course provides hands-on demonstrations and practices for each relevant task. Students complete a capstone practice to review the process of configuring SAS Risk Stratum, from loading new data to creating reports.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    Credit Risk Management - Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Using SAS Risk Stratum

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      SAS® Risk Stratum: Solution Overview for CECL
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      This solution overview training for SAS Risk Stratum for CECL prepares members of your organization's project team to be effective and informed participants in the requirements development and solution design phases of your implementation. The course includes hands-on demonstrations and teaches you key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Risk Stratum for CECL. After completing the course, participants will be prepared to make key business decisions.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual Lab time to practice.


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      SAS® Risk Stratum for CECL: Workshop
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      This course prepares end users for using SAS Solution for CECL on SAS Risk Stratum. The training prepares members of your organization's ECL analysis team to use SAS Risk Stratum to calculate your ECL. The course includes hands-on demonstrations and teaches key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Solution for CECL. After completing the course, participants will be prepared to make key business decisions.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual Lab time to practice.


    Credit Risk Management - International Financial Repoting Standard (IFRS9) Using SAS Risk Stratum

    5
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      Solution Overview for IFRS 9 on SAS® Risk Stratum
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      This course introduces data and risk analysts to the tasks used in the monthly production cycle. The course includes hands-on demonstrations and teaches you key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Solution for IFRS 9.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    Credit Risk Management - International Financial Repoting Standard (IFRS17) Using SAS Risk Stratum

    6
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      Business Overview of SAS® Solution for IFRS 17 in SAS® Risk Stratum
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      This course introduces data analysts, financial analysts, and end users to the tasks used in SAS Solution for IFRS 17 cycles. The course includes hands-on demonstrations and teaches you key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Solution for IFRS 17.

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      Technical Overview of SAS® Solution for IFRS 17 in SAS® Risk Stratum
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      This course introduces technical users to the underlying activities involved in the tasks used in IFRS 17 production cycles. The course includes hands-on demonstrations, descriptions of data structure, and an overview of the underlying codes, and it teaches the logic behind the base functionality that is integral to SAS Solution for IFRS 17.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    Governance and Compliance

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      Using SAS® Model Risk Management
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      This solution overview training for SAS Model Risk Management prepares members of your organization's project team to be effective and informed participants in the requirements development and solution design phases of your implementation. The course includes hands-on demonstrations, and it teaches key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that is integral to SAS Model Risk Management. After completing the course, participants are prepared to make key business decisions.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


    Risk Platform

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      SAS® Risk Governance Framework: Solution Overview
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      This course provides an overview of SAS Risk Governance Framework, a solution that provides a web-based environment in which financial analysts can orchestrate the stress testing process, specify scenarios, and consolidate modeling results into balance sheets, financial statements, and capital plans. Rick Governance Framework serves as a central hub from which banks can orchestrate the various aspects of the stress testing process and consolidate results from the various systems.

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      SAS® Infrastructure for Risk Management Overview
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      This course introduces users to SAS Infrastructure for Risk Management. It covers topics such as job flow instances, job flows, and federated areas.

      The self-study e-learning includes:

      • Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
      • Virtual lab time to practice.


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      SAS® High-Performance Risk Overview
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      SAS High-Performance Risk is used to set up risk environments for analysis projects and interactively explore the results. Analysis types include mark-to-market, sensitivity, delta-normal, simulation, and cash flow. The course is a brief, high-level overview, and it introduces users to exploring risk cubes in the interface.

    SAS Products Covered

    • SAS Model Implementation Platform
    • SAS Risk Management
    • SAS Risk Engine
    • SAS Risk Modeling
    • SAS Viya
    • SAS Asset and Liability Management
    • SAS Enterprise Miner
    • SAS Expected Credit Loss
    • SAS Risk Stratum
    • SAS Risk Governance Framework
    • SAS Model Manager
    • SAS Risk and Finance Workbench
    • SAS Solution for IFRS 17
    • SAS Model Risk Management
    • SAS Risk Analytics Builder


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    “I think the self-paced training was the BEST I’ve ever taken. The videos were short and segmented correctly to keep my attention and the activities and quizzes were just enough to help my confidence.”

    Tony Mayo, SAS Customer