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With this achievement, CIB continues to be a pioneer of innovative technology and digital transformation, and holds true to its mission of creating outstanding shareholder value while paving the future landscape for banking in Egypt and the region.
At the signing, Talha Karim, Head of Risk Management, Risk Group at CIB said “The implementation of the SAS Engine for Credit, Market, and Operational Risk is aligned with CIB’s strategic ERM initiative with the objective of a holistic and forward-looking approach to Risk Management, coupled with a robust Risk Appetite and Risk Culture framework.”
“The overall goal was to help CIB to effectively determine and manage the overall level of risk and compliance challenges” said Alaa Youssef, Managing Director, Middle East at SAS. “Having a thorough understanding of CIB’s business environment, and strategic roadmap, SAS is pleased to have enabled the bank to empower their processes with timely data-driven decisions while strengthening the needed capabilities with its ERM and AML platforms to provide the best value to all its stakeholders.”
The deployed Enterprise Risk Management solution ensures that the bank is leveraging the leading global techniques and standards in tracking its various risk types, including operational risk, market risk, as well as credit risk, while providing all the needed business intelligence and simulation mechanisms to empower timely and data insight driven decisions.
The world renowned SAS AML solution further strengthens CIB’s capabilities for proper identification of unusual transactions and activities and effectively manages its compliance risks with effective, sustainable processes and controls in order to safeguard the bank’s reputation as well as meet regulatory requirements leveraging advanced analytical algorithms and machine learning techniques.
Emphasizing on the strong capabilities offered by these solutions, Abla Khairy Chief Compliance Officer at CIB said “With the deployment of this solution, we believe that the implementation of the SAS AML Engine will guarantee proper management of compliance and apply a risk based approach which will assist to safeguard the bank’s reputation and avoid any adverse actions of non-compliance”.
SAS hosted a project completion ceremony to commemorate this remarkable implementation in line with CIB’s ERM initiative. Emphasizing on the uniqueness of this particular initiative, SAS recognized the efforts put forth by both the teams to make this project a success and presented CIB with its excellence and leadership award. The award was received by Mr. Mohamed Sultan, Chief Operating Officer and Mrs.Hanan El Borollossy, Deputy Chief Risk Officer.
About CIB
Established in 1975, Commercial International Bank (CIB) is Egypt’s leading private-sector bank. Each of CIB’s 6,500 employees is dedicated to achieving its mission: being a customer centric organization that delivers a distinctive customer experience through innovation and big data analytics. Through its network of over 200 branches, top-of-the-line remote channels, and innovative digital solutions, CIB provides solutions and services that meet customers' needs and drive value for all stakeholders.
CIB enjoys the titles of most profitable bank in Egypt and the bank of choice for over 500 of largest corporations. CIB was named the World’s Best Bank in the Emerging Markets in 2018 by the Global Finance, one year after it was awarded same title by Euromoney. CIB is the first Middle Eastern company featured in a case study by London Business School and the first Egyptian and African company included on the “2019 Bloomberg Gender Equality Index”.
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