SAS named a Leader in financial crime management solutions, says top research and advisory firm

Highest current offering score and top possible marks in nine of 11 criteria distinguish SAS in recent analyst evaluation

Cary, NC (Aug 24, 2026)

Global data and AI innovator SAS is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026, Forrester Research’s latest evaluation of the market’s most significant solution providers. Among the 15 firms evaluated, SAS earned the highest overall score in the current offering category – 4.70 out of 5.

“SAS’ vision shines with its converged support for AML and fraud management plus agentic AI capabilities for investigations and decisioning,” notes the Wave report, one of the industry’s most established and closely followed vendor evaluations benchmarking fraud and financial crime technology.

In Forrester’s current offering analysis, SAS’ financial crime management solutions suite – run on AI-powered, cloud-native SAS^® Viya^® – also earned the highest possible score in nine of 11 criteria – more than any other vendor evaluated. SAS’ top scores span the full financial crime management life cycle:

1. Data integration.
2. Administrator management.
3. Watchlist management and screening.
4. AI/machine learning (ML)-based risk scoring.
5. Transaction type support.
6. Queue definitions and alert routing.
7. Case management.
8. Third-party integrations.
9. Regulatory and operational reporting.

SAS – which marked its 50^th anniversary this year – received above-average customer feedback relative to other evaluated vendors in the Wave evaluation. In particular, customers like SAS’ ML model building and model testing capabilities.

Further, SAS received no below-par scores across the current offering criteria – the only solution provider to achieve that distinction. Collectively, these results underscore for SAS the breadth and depth of its platform and capabilities across fraud and financial crime management.

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