Unstructured Data and Text Analytics in Capital Markets

This Financial Insights report looks at the business need, challenges and opportunities, leading IT solutions, and winning business scenarios capital markets firms need to consider when dealing with unstructured data. The focus is on the technologies and approaches that unlock the most business value. Industry estimates for the amount of unstructured data within an organization is 80% of all information and this figure is expected to grow. This means capital markets firms need to understand the tools and techniques that will be required to add structure to unstructured content to improve search, discovery, and data management.

According to Sean O'Dowd, senior analyst for Global Capital Markets at Financial Insights, "Capital markets firms taking advantage of newer unstructured analytics solutions can help validate investment research, capture market moving news earlier, assess current business strategy impacts, and establish patterns that aid in predictive modeling. Too often the opportunities from utilizing unstructured data are unrealized by capital markets firms."