Delivering Value with Data and Technology
Digital and AI-led organizations are rapidly widening the gap with other industry players as they transform their business using data and technology. We believe that financial enterprises cannot embrace AI without building the data analytics backbone. Furthermore, our experienced team of data scientists offer financial modeling, predictive analytics, alternative data analysis among others which differentiates Acuity from other data science consulting firms.
Digital and AI transformation requires a continued shift in both technology and mindset. Leaders who focus on execution, i.e., tightly integrating business and technology, are able to multiply the benefits that technology adoption lends to their business.
Who we Serve
As one of the pre-eminent providers of financial data analytics consulting, Acuity enables investment banking, private markets and asset management firms to accelerate their decision-making with data driven insights. We offer services around data infrastructure, data transformation and data analysis.
Corporate, Commercial and Investment Banks
Asset Management
Private Markets
Our Success Stories
Cross-Functional Analytics Center-of-Excellence for a US-based Bank
- 200mn+ data fields analyzed
- 8mn+ alternative datasets sourced
- 5mn+ end customers engaged
Alternative Data Analysis for a South African Bank
- 500m+ real-estate property data points
- 4 websites
- 100% automated
Custom Risk Analytics for an Institutional Asset Manager
- $1.4m in annualized savings
- 80% faster turnaround time
- Pooled resourcing structure
Strategic Data Production Partner to a Top 3 Hedge Fund
- USD1.1m in annualized cost savings
- Capital markets domain + front-office technology DNA helped create a strong validation framework
AI-Powered ESG Analytics for a Global Asset Manager
- 30 data fields analyzed
- 10 alternative datasets sourced
- 4 NLP engines built
Centralized Risk Data Warehouse Including APIs for a Bulge Bracket Investment Bank
- Reduced cost by 40%
- Extracted over 500 market indicators time series data from source providers
Financial Services - Data Science and Analytics Consulting
Our unique blend of banking and financial domain expertise coupled with technology knowhow differentiates us from other data analytics consulting firms. We enable financial enterprises to reduce time-to-insights by offering services around data acquisition, data preparation, data analytics, data visualization and reporting.
Data Acquisition
- Traditional data: Financials, market data, operational metrics, macro economic
- Proprietary data: In-house data lake, subscribed data sources
- Alternative data: Individuals, business and machines
Data Preparation
- Data transformation: Cleansing, structuring, enrichment, normalizing, data splitting, tagging
- Exploratory data analysis: Identify missing values, duplicates, imbalances
- Features Engineering
Data Analysis
- Supervised machine learning
- Unsupervised machine learning
- Deep learning
- Natural language processing, Unstructured data mining
- Stochastic/statistical modeling
Reporting
- Bespoke reporting: Data, dashboards, data lakes, bespoke emails, reports
- Proprietary outputs: Signals on client-defined criteria, bespoke indices
- Insights which are descriptive, diagnostic, predictive or prescriptive for various contexts