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SAS for Finance

By : Harish Gulati
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SAS for Finance

By: Harish Gulati

Overview of this book

SAS is a groundbreaking tool for advanced predictive and statistical analytics used by top banks and financial corporations to establish insights from their financial data. SAS for Finance offers you the opportunity to leverage the power of SAS analytics in redefining your data. Packed with real-world examples from leading financial institutions, the author discusses statistical models using time series data to resolve business issues. This book shows you how to exploit the capabilities of this high-powered package to create clean, accurate financial models. You can easily assess the pros and cons of models to suit your unique business needs. By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage the true power of SAS to design and develop accurate analytical models to gain deeper insights into your financial data.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Business problem

While a few decades ago, retail banks primarily made profits by leveraging their treasury office, recent years have seen fee income become a major source of profitability. Accepting deposits from customers and lending to other customers is one of the core functions of the treasury. However, charging for current or savings accounts with add-on facilities such as breakdown cover, mobile and other insurances, and so on, has become a lucrative avenue for banks. One retail bank has a plain vanilla classic bank account, mid-tier premier, and a top-of-the-range, benefits included platinum account. The classic account is offered free and the premier and platinum have fees of $10 and $20 per month respectively. The marketing team has just relaunched the fee-based accounts with added benefits. The finance team wanted a projection of how much revenue could be generated via...