Douglas McKinley

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters greatest resource is its trusted content. Blending Data with Emerging Technology & Innovation means new tools for  financial firms wrestling with ever greater big data challenges. It is Big Open Linked Data (BOLD) solutions that truly set Thomson. Based in Milan Italy, Douglas drives the use of cutting edge data and technology like BOLD to improve how customers find, extract and tag data; Semantic Analysis and Learning Machines to generate Sentiment on News and Social Media; Machine-Learning algorithms to spot suspicious trading patterns and potential fraud. A coder by trade, with a degree in Applied Computing he previously ran and managed his own company he spent seven years dealing with startups and in innovative areas like Predictive Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and High Performance Computing, Additive Manufacturing and  3d printing to name a few.

Big Open Linked Data (BOLD) - Adoption of Connected Data approaches within the financial services.

Useful Data is Connected Data - The winners and losers of the Big Data Race will be measured on how well Big Tech (and Small Techs) fare in the adoption of Connected Data technologies. The race to have more Big Data as a competitive advantage can be a race to with no finish line. More and more Big Data might simply mean more Messy Data to deal with.  Accumulating Date Lakes, collecting Data Exhaust and adventuring into ever more Obscure Alternative Data sets can quickly become a singular obsession. 

The next generation of Financial Services data and software products will make smart use of all this data by connecting and aggregating to attain real value. Through their Big Open Linked Data (BOLD) offering Thomson Reuters are leading the way in terms of adoption of Connected Data approaches within the financial services. Increasingly organizations are recognizing that new approaches are required to meet more stringent regulatory requirements, new forms of risk and to compete in an increasingly sophisticated investment environment. Thomson Reuters are leading the way in this regard by enabling deeper and more sophisticated data analysis and screening techniques by leveraging semantic technology, linked data & AI.