Investec works with more than $100bn assets under its management, but it was facing several major challenges, particularly around its use of premium data. This meant that key relationship managers within Investec had no insight whatsoever about key events related to funds they cover, leaving them...

Banking organisations and insurance companies, financial services in short, are an industry that is both fast-paced and highly competitive. It’s no exaggeration to state that there is more data in FS than most other industries can even contemplate, let alone use in any meaningful sense. The...

The cover story of the May 6th, 2017 issue of The Economist boldly proclaimed data as “the world’s most valuable resource,” which is a new reality that has taken shape over the years. Technology used to be all about products, but the 1990s brought about the...

Artificial spent a couple of cold days in Munich last week for the third iteration of the Digital Insurance Agenda conference. Startups from all over the world, but mainly Germany and Holland, demoed their technology on stage (no slides allowed), although take note, trying to talk...

One of the big promises of a data-driven enterprise is that actionable decisions can be made unencumbered by bias, hidden agendas or any of the human factors that could intentionally or unintentionally influence the essential ‘truth’ of a matter. After all, data is fact. It’s a...