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Feedzai and SAS are key players in the financial crime prevention industry. Both players offer solutions that help financial institutions mitigate fraud risks and ensure regulatory compliance. However, their approaches, capabilities, and market positioning differ significantly.
2025 AI Trends in Fraud and Financial Crime Prevention
Feedzai’s survey of 562 financial professionals shows the industry adjusting to new data responsibilities due to rapid AI adoption.
Who is Feedzai?
Founded in 2011, Feedzai has rapidly established itself as a leader in AI-driven financial crime prevention, characterized by its “AI-native” and “end-to-end” platform design.1 The company’s core mission is to stop fraud and financial crime across the entire customer lifecycle, from account opening to compliance reporting.1 Its platform seamlessly integrates advanced fraud detection, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and behavioral biometrics, providing a unified solution to address diverse threats such as scams, synthetic identity fraud, and account takeovers.1
Who is SAS?
Established in 1976, SAS is recognized for its analytics solutions across multiple industries.2 Its fraud and AML tools are integral components of a much broader portfolio, reflecting SAS’s extensive analytical capabilities.2 Historically, SAS’s strength has been rooted in its on-premise software implementations and robust statistical analysis systems.2
Feature
Feedzai
SAS
Cloud Architecture
Cloud-first, AI-native, offering inherent scalability and agility for omni-channel and omni-data processing.1
Historically on-premise, actively transitioning to cloud-native with SAS Viya; despite being a relatively recent solution, it aims to deliver faster deployment and seamless scalability.2
Data Processing
Data agnostic; processes vast datasets quickly with millisecond latency for real-time risk scoring and individualized profiling.1
Reports highlighted slow processing times and the absence of dedicated account managers.6
SAS Viya now offers in-memory processing for high-throughput, low-latency, real-time transaction scoring.7
Fraud Detection Models
Adaptive AI with individualized profiling and real-time updates based on transactional, biometric, and other data. Emphasizes Responsible AI with Whitebox Explanations and Generative AI agents.1
SAS provides robust risk-scoring capabilities but falls short when it comes to streamlining data-integration workflows. 4
SAS Viya platform uses machine learning techniques to identify anomalies.10
Comprehensive Solutions
End-to-end AI-native platform includes the Digital Trust solution that consolidates behavioral analytics, fraud prevention, and AML monitoring needs across multiple channels.1
Historically separate solutions for fraud and AML, but actively converging onto a common AI/ML-driven architecture for an integrated, end-to-end platform.6, 9
Customer Support
Praised for responsive, customer-centric support, with a "fantastic" support team and a "real passion" for the product.
Some reports of occasional complexity in support exist.3
Deployment Speed
25x faster model deployment compared to legacy systems.
Long implementation times reported by customers, due to complex data integration and customization requirements for large enterprise projects.3
Modern SAS Viya aims for quicker operationalization.2
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Additional Resources
Footnotes
1 https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6cbmn62splyhq
2 https://www.bloorresearch.com/2024/03/11/sas-who-dares-wins-in-database-analytics/
3 https://www.g2.com/products/sas-fraud-anti-money-laundering-security-intelligence-platform/reviews
4 https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-enterprise-fraud-management-q3-2021/RES176065
7 https://www.sas.com/en_sa/software/fraud-decisioning.html
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