Global Capital Markets

Data is the lifeblood of capital markets firms. Whether we are talking about market data in trading, reference data in clearing and settlement, or vast amounts of unstructured data that is analyzed to create new value in the enterprise, winning data strategies can mean competitive advantage and improved operating results. Strengthening the foundation to drive greater integrity, accuracy, and analysis of data will be a major contributing factor to sorting out the advancers and decliners in the marketplace. Financial Insights will be publishing a three-part series of reports that discuss in greater detail the challenges, opportunities, leading IT solutions, and winning business scenarios capital markets firms need to consider. The reports will focus on three high-level types of data that are most pressing to capital market firms. This first focuses on unstructured data, the second on market data, and the last on reference data. This document introduces the issues and presents our taxonomy for data in capital markets.