Data Analytics for Financial Services
Global technology and market trends including the rise of AI, regulatory developments, market volatility driven by geopolitical changes, ESG mandates and the quantum of data surging to zettabytes are creating a complex operating environment for the financial services sector.
To adapt to the new normal and gain a competitive edge, CXOs of financial institutions across the globe are actively implementing real time data-driven strategic and transformative changes within investment banks, commercial banks, asset management firms, hedge funds and private equity firms.
Acuity’s Data and Technology Services (DTS) practice has been a trusted partner to financial services since 2005. With this contextual partnership, our clients have been able to differentiate offerings, enhance competitiveness with predictive analytics, take informed decisions to generate alpha, and redefine customer experience, thus making them operationally efficient.
Financial Data Analytics Services
From scalable data ingestion to contextual insight-covering
the entire data lifecycle
Data Infrastructure
- Data discovery
- Data ingestion
- Data pipeline
Data Transformation
- Data processing
- Data tagging
- Data architecture
Data Analytics
- Advanced analytics
- BI / visualization
- AI / machine learning (ML) solutions
Our Data Management Framework
for Financial Services
ACQUIRE
- Traditional data: Financials, market data, operational metrics and macroeconomic
- Proprietary data: In-house data lake and subscribed data sources
- Alternative data: Individuals, business and machines
PREPARE
- Data transformation: Cleansing, structuring, enrichment, normalising, data splitting and tagging
- Exploratory data analysis: Identifying missing values, duplicates and imbalances
- Features Engineering
ANALYSE
- Supervised machine learning
- Unsupervised machine learning
- Deep learning
- Natural language processing and unstructured data mining
- Stochastic/statistical modelling
CONSUME
- Bespoke reporting: Data, dashboards, data lakes, bespoke emails and reports
- Proprietary outputs: Signals on client-defined criteria and bespoke indices
- Insights that are descriptive, diagnostic, predictive or prescriptive in different contexts
Our Technology Expertise
Why Acuity?
Domain Centric
1000+ technologists work closely with 4,800+in-house research experts to create bespoke and contextual outcomes across asset classes
Pragmatic RoI-Driven Approach
Meticulous scoping and solutioning process to identify key client challenges and formulate a milestone- and incremental gain-based framework with clear timelines
Robust Solution-Oriented Framework
Our data analytics framework is modular across the data acquisition, preparation, analytics and reporting stages, thus enabling a tailored approach that can unify or overhaul existing processes to drive efficiency.
Tailored Solutions for Banks,
Asset Managers, and Private Markets
Banking
- Re-engineering and transforming credit risk data of underlying portfolios for automation and cost reduction
- Machine learning (ML) for advanced Equity Capital Markets (ECM) Analytics delivering predictive equity issuance decisions
- Customer attrition analytics, product strategy analytics, branch analytics and consumer household insights for consumer banks
Asset Management
- AI-powered ESG analytics for portfolio managers, with automated coverage of holdings
- Select and analyse large volumes of alternative data to create differentiated, value-added and anti-consensual research
- Bespoke algorithms and baskets to facilitate thematic investments
- Accelerate alpha research with in-depth reporting pg alpha performance
- Non-linear factor modelling for systematic investment strategies
Private Market
- AI-powered automation of deal origination and due diligence to optimise time and costs
- Pricing analytics to optimise commercial strategies for portfolio companies
- Scalable target screening and anomaly detection using alternative data
- Identify emerging investment themes using AI
- Analyse shareholding and trading patterns to derive exit intelligence
- Pre-investment analysis for optimal deal sourcing