3 October 2007

Detica Group plc (DCA.L), the information intelligence specialist, and SAS, the leader in business intelligence (BI), have signed an agreement to offer an advanced fraud management solution, based on proven technologies, to US banks and insurers. SAS® Fraud Management: Network Investigation and Analysis powered by Detica NetReveal® is built on a foundation of powerful SAS BI and analytic software, the ground-breaking Detica NetReveal® fraud detection and investigation solution, and the financial services and fraud management domain expertise of both partners.

Detica will be the exclusive services provider for all sales made under the agreement, which will focus initially on the North American banking and insurance markets. Today's announcement was made at The Premier Business Leadership Series conference in Las Vegas.

The crime-busting capabilities of Detica NetReveal® have been grabbing headlines over the summer. In August, the UK's Insurance Fraud Bureau announced that the software had enabled it to expose insurance fraud networks leading to 74 arrests and a significant return on investment in the Bureau's first year. Detica NetReveal® is now being used and evaluated by many of the UK's largest banking and insurance companies, as well as leading Government, law enforcement and telecommunications organisations, to detect and investigate organised fraud. Existing customers have seen a ten-fold reduction in false alarms and a tripling in investigator efficiency.

As an enterprise-wide fraud-detection system, SAS Fraud Management provides powerful, advanced analytics that work across multiple data sources. It is completely integrated with the latest anti-fraud measures, including Chip & PIN technology, enabling banks and insurers to detect and prevent crime—in real time—across the entire spectrum of fraudulent practices. With SAS Fraud Management, financial services firms can accurately score every transaction at the point of sale in order to identify possible fraud and reduce fraud losses.

Martin Sutherland, Head of Strategic Ventures at Detica, said: "Detica NetReveal® is unique because it uncovers the hidden relationships and behaviours between people and data which traditional systems just don't pick up. Today's organised fraudsters are wise to traditional detection methods and use false identities to hide their activities and avoid capture. Our experts have developed highly sophisticated analytics that link data into networks and then score these networks against a wide range of criminal and fraudulent behaviours. We're pleased to be working with SAS, the premier BI and analytics company, to introduce Detica NetReveal® to the US market."

According to a recent industry report, US companies lose 5% of their annual revenues to fraud, which equates to approximately $652 billion in total fraud losses (source: Pipal Research, 2006). SAS® Fraud Management: Network Investigation and Analysis powered by Detica NetReveal® will provide powerful new fraud analysis and investigation capabilities and help financial institutions better analyse and detect illicit behaviour.

David Macdonald, General Manager of Financial Services for SAS Americas, said: "The addition of Detica NetReveal® adds a significant new dimension to our powerful line-up of anti-fraud offerings. The combination of SAS and Detica is great news for our banking and insurance customers in the US, and bad news for fraudsters."

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