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Last time, I talked about why financial services is really just as much about information – about communication – as it is about numbers and complex fund predictions. And then I touched on why the growth in the volume of information, which continues to be boosted by web publishing, presents some key challenges for financial …
There’s a common mis-conception that financial services is exclusively a numbers game; that it’s all about returns, interest rates and performance graphs. Infact, whether you service institutional investors and pension funds or Joe Bloggs on the high street and pensioners, financial advice and management has much more to do with information and communication than it …
There’s something a little ironic about sharing data on how fast the amount of data is growing… but, since big data is big news for IT in 2012, here are 12 facts that made our eyes widen at the seemingly unstoppable growth in global data. 1. If you stacked a pile of CD-ROMs on top …