SAS to hold Credit Risk Management course as part of ongoing Business Knowledge Series

The event is part of the ongoing 'SAS Business Knowledge Series,' which seeks to promote real world solutions for today's professionals.

The special course will be facilitated by Naeem Siddiqi, Global Product Manager-Banking Analytics Solutions, SAS and the author of Credit Risk Scorecards.

Participants for this business focused course will gain key knowledge on how to plan, develop, implement and maintain in-house risk scorecards.

The specialized training session provides a high-level introduction to credit risk management and also teaches participants on how to run scorecard implementation strategies.

In addition, the Credit Risk Management course will compose of discussions on how to create business and project plans for scorecard development; develop and validate intelligent credit risk scorecards and how to generate scorecard and portfolio performance reports.

Credit risk management guru Siddiqi has over 15 years of experience in his field and has served as consultant and risk manager for leading financial institutions.

"We are very proud to offer this special Credit Risk Management course, which is part of our continuing Business Knowledge series. This seminar is being held to reach out to the region's credit risk and scoring managers, data miners and professionals involved in model vetting/validation, auditing, risk strategy developers and credit risk executives. Our aim is to give these participants a better understanding of the importance of credit risk and its components like management, scorecards while at the same time learning how to identify the different types of risks. Naeem Siddiqi, who is credited for authoring the use of Credit Risk scorecards, will not only help participants learn more about this timely topic but will also impart the significant benefits to be gained from utilizing the diverse portfolio of SAS Solutions," concluded Shukri Dabaghi, General Manager, SAS Middle East.