Case Study: SDC enables 120 Nordic banks to prevent crime and stay compliant with SAS Anti‑Money Laundering

SAS helps firms monitor suspicious activity and comply with regulations

SDC is an IT‑service provider supporting 120 small and medium banks across four Nordic countries (9,500 employees, 3.6 million customers). Confronted with rising regulatory pressure and increasingly sophisticated money‑laundering threats, SDC needed to give its smaller clients the same level of anti‑money‑laundering governance and surveillance as the largest banks while reducing false positives and resource strain.

SDC deployed a centralized, communal compliance platform built on SAS® Anti‑Money Laundering, SAS® Visual Analytics and SAS® Customer Due Diligence that allows standardized oversight with per‑bank tailoring. The implementation streamlined searches and error correction, improved scenario accuracy and investigative efficiency (reducing non‑productive alerts), and enabled smaller banks to achieve surveillance quality comparable to major institutions, with plans to add real‑time semantics and a 360° customer view.

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Suzan Moos

Business Analyst and Developer