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SAS® Fraud Decisioning | 2025 Release Highlights

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2025 Release highlights

SAS® Fraud Decisioning

Explore 2025 release features with SAS® Fraud Decisioning.

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1. Streamlined batch payment processing

2. Enhanced variable transparency & governance

3. Block codes dispositions

4. Transaction marking memos & reason codes

5. Streamlined merchant acquiring fraud detection

6. SAS Fraud Decisioning resources

 

Streamlined batch payment processing  |  2025.07 | SAS® Fraud Decisioning

New functionality Why it matters
Batch data model: captures essential header information for payments and settlement messages
  • Faster, more accurate handling of batch transactions
  • Reduces operational complexity
  • Ensures smoother fraud detection across large payment volumes

SAS Help Center Documentation - Streamlined Batch

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Enhanced variable transparency & governance  |  SAS® Fraud Decisioning

New functionality Why it matters
  • Increased maximum length for string variable fields
  • Improved visibility into model-used variables
  • Clear identification of deprecated variables
  • Expanded recommended values
  • Greater flexibility for customer data
  • Reduced configuration risk/rework
  • Stronger governance and audit readiness
  • More for categorizing solution variables enables finer control and more accurate decisioning

SAS Help Center Documentation - Enhanced Variable

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Block codes dispositions  |  2025.08 | SAS® Fraud Decisioning

New functionality Why it matters
  • Labels accounts, transactions, or cards as blocked or actioned
  • Communicate decisions across systems with Kafka
  • Ensures every block action is traceable and aligned with queue-specific dispositions
  • Improves auditability and cross-team coordination
  • Stronger compliance operational control

SAS Help Center Documentation - Block Codes

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Transaction marking memos & reason codes  |  SAS® Fraud Decisioning

New functionality Why it matters
  • Users can now add context to their fraud decisions
  • Rule authors and analysts can see why a transaction was flagged or cleared
  • Select from predefined reason codes and memos
  • Greater clarity and collaboration in transaction reviews
  • Enhances transparency in fraud decisions
  • Better future analysis

SAS Help Center Documentation - Transaction Markings

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Streamlined merchant acquiring fraud detection  |  SAS® Fraud Decisioning

New functionality Why it matters
  • Pre-built merchant acquiring rules, including pseudocode disclaimers and guidance for rule writers
  • Merchant-specific disposition reason codes
  • Action groups aligned to merchant blocking
  • New PageLayout, TransactionViewer, and TransactionGrids for merchant acquiring
  • Dedicated merchant acquiring queue
  • Accelerated implementation and reduced development effort for merchant acquiring fraud strategies
  • Improved accuracy and consistency in merchant fraud decisions
  • Accelerated analyst workflows during triage
  • Reduced operation risk from incorrect or delayed actions
  • Scaleability for higher alert volumes while maintaining consistency, governance, and auditability

SAS Help Center Documentation - Streamlined Merchant Acquiring

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SAS® Fraud Decisioning resources

 

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