Chartis: SAS ranks Top 3 in RiskTech AI 50, wins 'Responsible AI Adoption' and 'Use of AI in Retail Banking' categories

The Chartis RiskTech AI 50 2025 rankings laud SAS' 'unwavering commitment to ethical AI practices' and its advancement of real-time AI applications in financial services

CARY, N.C., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS has earned a No. 3 overall ranking in Chartis Research's second annual Chartis RiskTech AI 50 report, a comprehensive ranking of the world's 50 most impactful and innovative providers of AI-driven risk technology. Additionally, the data and AI leader won two key category awards:

• Responsible AI Adoption. Chartis heralded SAS for its ethos-grounded commitment to AI ethics, including model transparency, governance and accountability. SAS embeds these and other critical ethical innovation principles into its product design and deployment strategies to ensure its AI solutions are not only effective but also trustworthy.
  
  
• Use of AI in Retail Banking. Chartis also recognized SAS for advancing AI in retail banking – with banking analytics solutions from fraud detection to risk and compliance to customer experience and marketing. By leveraging SAS' real-time analytics and advanced machine learning, financial firms like banks and insurers can detect threats early, adapt to emerging risks and deliver seamless, loyalty-building customer service.

"SAS' strong debut in the RiskTech AI 50 2025 reflects its strategic approach to integrating ethical innovation with transformative AI," said Sid Dash, Chief Researcher at Chartis. "Its full-spectrum solutions portfolio, powered by high-performance SAS Viya, helped propel SAS to a commanding Top 3 ranking – and also earned SAS the No. 2 spot on our Chartis RiskTech100 2025.

"With a proven track record, powerful platform and principled approach to AI, SAS is helping shape the future of risk technology."

An AI platform built for trust, performance and productivity
Industry-leading SAS^® Viya^®, the company's cloud-native, language agnostic AI platform, enables organizations to deploy, govern and scale AI models at speeds up to 30x faster than competing platforms. By supporting a wide range of use cases – fraud detection, anti-money laundering compliance, credit risk modeling, asset and liability management, customer engagement and much more – SAS Viya fuels enterprise-wide insights and agility.

"SAS' unified portfolio of AI-powered solutions delivers real-time insights and orchestrates agentic decisions that drive financial firms' core front- and back-office operations," said Stu Bradley, Senior Vice President of Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions at SAS. "What sets SAS apart is our ability to integrate firms' essential capabilities and data on a single, scalable platform, helping institutions to break down silos, streamline operations and make faster, more trustworthy decisions."

Strategic vision and execution in a rapidly evolving AI landscape
The Chartis RiskTech AI 50 2025 report highlights the accelerating pace of AI innovation in financial services. As generative AI and machine learning become more deeply embedded in enterprise workflows, vendors are being challenged to deliver not just novel capabilities, but real-world value.

SAS has responded with a pragmatic, customer-centric approach. Unlike vendors that treat AI as a standalone capability, SAS embeds it as a foundational layer interwoven across business processes.

Chartis commends SAS' strategic clarity and execution in its SAS Winner's Summary:

"SAS is ensuring that its solutions remain relevant and effective in an ever-evolving landscape. By focusing on transparency, accountability and governance, SAS is well positioned to continue its leadership in leveraging AI to support institutions in growing, protecting and efficiently managing their operations."

Meeting the moment in the intelligent banking age
As AI reshapes the financial services landscape, banking leaders face a defining moment: how to balance innovation, trust, and performance in an increasingly complex, risk-laden environment. How are banking leaders using data and AI to meet the demands of the next decade?

New SAS-sponsored research by Economist Impact, Intelligent Banking: The Future Ahead, explores how banks worldwide are transforming to tackle evolving risks and increased competition. Based on a survey of 1,700 senior executives in 18 countries, the study offers critical insight into how banking leaders are redefining customer value – and the industry itself.

Download the full report at SAS.com/intelligent-banking.

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