Financial Data Science Solutions
Global technology megatrends, regulatory developments, the competitive landscape and the rise of alternative data have been driving a paradigm shift in the capital markets ecosystem. Demand to find new avenues of alpha creation powered by data science techniques is at unprecedented levels. Acuity has been providing highly bespoke quantitative and technology-powered solutions to our buy-side and sell-side clients since 2005. To address growing demand in recent years, we launched a dedicated data science practice early in 2019 to provide unique and contextual insights based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Financial Data Science Services – Support We Offer
Traditional data: financials, market data, operational metrics, macroeconomic data
Proprietary data: in-house data lake, subscribed data sources
Alternative data: individuals, businesses and machines
Exploratory data analysis: identify missing values, duplicates, imbalances
Data transformation: cleansing, structuring, enrichment, normalising, data splitting, tagging
Features engineering: using domain knowledge
Supervised machine learning
Unsupervised machine learning
Deep learning
Natural language processing, unstructured data mining
Stochastic/statistical modelling
Bespoke reporting: data, dashboards, data lakes, bespoke emails, reports
Proprietary outputs: signals on client-defined criteria, bespoke indices
Insights that are descriptive, diagnostic, predictive or prescriptive for different contexts
Financial Data Science Services – Support We Offer
Traditional data: financials, market data, operational metrics, macroeconomic data
Proprietary data: in-house data lake, subscribed data sources
Alternative data: individuals, businesses and machines
Exploratory data analysis: identify missing values, duplicates, imbalances
Data transformation: cleansing, structuring, enrichment, normalising, data splitting, tagging
Features engineering: using domain knowledge
Supervised machine learning
Unsupervised machine learning
Deep learning
Natural language processing, unstructured data mining
Stochastic/statistical modelling
Bespoke reporting: data, dashboards, data lakes, bespoke emails, reports
Proprietary outputs: signals on client-defined criteria, bespoke indices
Insights that are descriptive, diagnostic, predictive or prescriptive for different contexts
How we are different
Domain-centric solutions: 70+ data science professionals work closely with 1,000+ in-house fundamental analysts to create bespoke and contextual outcomes across asset classes
Meticulous scoping and solutioning process to identify key client challenges and formulate a milestone- and incremental gain-based framework with clear timelines
Ability to deliver scalable architecture and outcomes by partnering with our in-house team of 250+ technologists with proven experience in working with capital markets since 2003