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A community blog about data and how to manage it
Data underpins the modern economy. Every single day, Experian processes more than 100,000 applications for credit cards, mortgages, loans and current accounts and more than 500,000 soft searches, help...
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1. Introduction Just as "Cloud", "IoT" (Internet of Things), "Open Banking" and "Machine Learning", "Big Data" is one of the most written buzzwords in...
It must have happened to you. It certainly happens to me every once in a while. I need to find something urgently and even have no clue where to start searching. Typically a spare part of one or anoth...
Earlier this year, Invesco's chief executive, Martin Flanagan, was quoted as saying that "a third of the asset management industry could disappear over the next five years". It follows Inve...
The acceleration of technology means that we now live in a world built on data - it is everywhere, forever growing in value and significance. It has the potential to make hugely positive changes to th...
The cost of dirty data – data that is inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent – is enormous. Earlier this year, Gartner reported that, on average, poor quality data cost an organisation $15 million in...
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchai...
One of the lesser-reported consequences of the recent US government partial shutdown was its effect upon the reporting of key economic and financial markets data. Many regulatory agencies closed up sh...
We have come along way when it comes to the effective management and utilisation of data. However, according to our recent research, most businesses are still struglling to unlock the full potential o...
As Bernard Marr suggests “Data is the new oil!” It is a claim you will have heard many times. Marr goes on to suggest that “It’s easy to draw parallels due to the way information (data) is used to po
The volume, variety and velocity of data created in the digital age is making data usage a strategic priority for banks of all sizes. Data is often described as the ‘new currency’, and rightly so, as ...