Gerard McDonnell

Regional Solutions Director, Banking & Insurance Fraud, EME - AP, SAS

Gerard has over 25 years’ experience providing software solutions for fraud and security clients, particularly in the finance sector and governments in many areas around the world.

During the last 10 years, he has been involved with all of the major SAS Fraud, Regulatory Compliance and Security related projects, initially based in the Middle East and more recently in the Asia Pacific region, covering the following areas:

– Realtime detection & decisioning for payments, online and credit card fraud using machine learning models.
– Complex fraud detection for banking applications, employees, FCIUs using Network Link Analysis.
– Regulatory compliance including AML, CDD and conduct assurance.
– Procurement integrity & supplier onboarding.
– Insurance fraud & compliance.
– Government customs & immigration.

Prior to joining SAS, Gerard had various regional management roles for security technology companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, CrossMatch Technology (Biometrics) and Novell. He is a Certified Counter Terrorism Practitioner and is also developing best practices for CFT initiatives.