About us: Expert research into trends in data and analytics

We provide industry insights into the breadth of data driven solutions within financial services, including the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, predictive analytics, data management, and business intelligence.

Why Subscribe?

Intelligence and insights

Distinctive Insights provides expert research into trends in data and analytics within financial services. Our research tracks the development of data driven solutions within banking, investment management, wealth management, payments, and many other financial sectors.

Our research reports include detailed intelligence on developments within financial institutions (use cases, vendor relationships, patents, and investments) and within the vendors which service them (including detailed insights into product and solutions, clients, partners, and funding).

How do we generate our content?

We track hundreds of thousands of pieces of source data and convert these into curated content specifically designed to support a specialised industry analysis of financial institutions, vendors, and use cases. We deliver this to you through our research subscription with multiple reports every month.

Sources we monitor

We monitor an extensive and diverse range of data sources originating from financial institutions, software vendors, regulators and patents registries to provide a full and transparent view into the evolving world of data solutions within financial services. Key source categories include:

Company press releases.
Websites of market leading software vendors.
Financial institution websites.
Company annual reports.
Funding databases.

Content we identify

We process the extracted output from these data source through our proprietary research models and taxonomies to curate novel and unique insights. The content is analysed, aggregated and presented through different lenses of financial sectors, use case groups, and vendor types. Key content categories include:

Intelligence on financial institutions.
Financial institution annual reports extracts.
Vendor product updates.
Vendor client relationships.
Vendor partner relationships.
Vendor funding, merger and acquisition announcements.
Other corporate updates from vendors.

Meta data modelling

We apply our proprietary meta data models to curate the content. Using the meta data models, we extract only relevant content to feed into our research reports. These reports are structured in a way to turn the content into practical insight and intelligence.

Financial services use case model.
Data analytics specialisms model.
Regulatory themes model.
Content categorisation model (to extract product insights, client insights, partner insights, funding insights, etc).
Mapping of vendors to use cases.

Who should subscribe?

Our subscriber base encompasses the breadth of stakeholders across the financial services community, including business teams, internal technology teams, investors, software providers and financial services consultants. Key examples include:

Financial Institutions aiming to cut through the complexity of developments within artificial intelligence, machine learning and data solution applications.
Vendors looking to understand their competitive landscape and how solutions can be most effectively positioned.
Investors aiming to understand where the true demand is for data driven solutions within the financial sector, and which products and services are gaining traction.

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