Banking on Top Rate Intelligence: FreePint for Banking & Finance Professionals
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By Perrin Kerravala

Abstract

Banking and finance organisations have vast requirements for information, including sources on regulatory compliance, competitive intelligence, companies and industries, and more. FreePint can help information professionals in banking and finance organisations identify new sources, consider older sources in a new way and provide fuel to justify procurement decisions.

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As an information professional at a global finance & insurance firm, I can personally attest how the information requirements in the banking & finance industry can seem endless. FreePint can help readers in this knowledge-intensive industry (and further afield) keep updated on products, trends and issues.

Recent FreePint Articles and Reports of interest to those working in the banking & finance industry:

Articles:

• Compliance Product Vendor Map: Who Does What in the Regulatory Space
• Zawya Now the Go-To MENA Resource with Third Platform Launch
• The Joy of Brokers' Reports: An Underestimated Resource
• Competitive Intelligence: Deciphering Corporate Strategy using Secondary Sources

Reports:

• Product Review of Global Financial Data

Coping with Compliance

On the compliance front, information managers are challenged to find the best solutions to meet their firm’s requirements for Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, and Anti-Terrorist Financing initiatives. Chris Porter’s Compliance Product Vendor Map: Who Does What in the Regulatory Space provides an excellent overview of several major vendors on the market today. Chris’s article, which is part of the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context, includes solutions for both large and small compliance programmes for research on customers, suppliers, and other business counterparties.

Identifying Top Intelligence Sources

Company intelligence is a highly competitive segment, with dozens of vendors offering constantly upgraded and reinvented products. In Zawya Now the Go-To MENA Resource with Third Platform Launch, Penny Crossland reports how Thomson Reuters has enriched the Middle Eastern companies platform with new modules on Middle East financial markets, as well as construction & infrastructure projects. This is a welcome expansion, since the Middle East represents one of the world’s growth markets, despite all the political and civil unrest of the past few years.

Readers with limited resources for new information subscriptions may enjoy Yulia Aspinall’s recent article, The Joy of Brokers' Reports: An Underestimated Resource. Most banking and finance companies will have access to broker or investment research through their broker relationships, or commonly-subscribed to third-parties such as Bloomberg and Reuters.

Yulia reminds us that investment research can provide hard-to-find information on companies, industries and commodities, including forward-looking information, such as forecasts and strategy. A nice complement to Yulia’s article can be found in Competitive Intelligence: Deciphering Corporate Strategy using Secondary Sources. In this article, Milan Dalal provides a deep-dive into how to conduct corporate strategy research using sources like investment research.

Procuring Products Based on Sound Information

Finally, economics and data junkies will be interested in FreePint’s Product Review of Global Financial Data (GFD), written by yours truly. Products like GFD offer the underlying time-series data that are relied on by banking and finance companies to drive their performance models. FreePint’s product reviews can help information professionals make procurement decisions.

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