Semantic Solutions in Financial
Services
OMG’s Demystifying Financial Services Semantics
Conference
13 March 2012
Contact:
Alok Prasad & Sean Martin
Cambridge Semantics Inc.
141 Tremont Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
aprasad@cambridgesemantics.com
+1 (617) 600-8653
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Cambridge Semantics Company Overview
Cambridge Semantics is a leading provider of enterprise semantic
data management software.
• Founded in 2007 by senior members of IBM’s Advanced Internet
Technology Group
• Our Anzo software is based on 10+ years of R&D and is on its 3rd
generation
• Actively leads W3C groups defining semantic technology
standards
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Typical Problems We Are Addressing
There is more data in more
places than ever before
– Increasing role for unstructured data
Business environments
change frequently
There is an increased
reliance on crossorganizational data
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Financial Services Use Cases
• Compliance Management
• Risk Modeling &
Management
• Insider Trading Analysis
Flexible and easy to use compliance solutions that can adapt
with changing regulation
Eg: What is my exposure to Greece? (Entities, Events, …)
Allow users to create changing approaches to monitor insider
trading – data from structured and unstructured sources
• Customer List Management
Generate high-quality lists of customers and prospects for sales
& marketing campaigns
• Customer 360
On-demand access to customer data spread among many source
systems. Capture & share varied customer data in context
• Rapid Data Cleansing
Allow end users to identify, ingest, filter, clean, enrich, curate,
and export large data sets
• Data Virtualization
Leave data in source data stores while providing a unified view
across sources for analytics or action
• Semantic Master Data
Management
Up-to-date MDM: Manage definitions, terms, entities and other
master data across ever-changing systems and sources
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Spotlight: Compliance Information Management
Flexible and easy to manage compliance information lifecycle
management
Regulation Scanning
Policy Creation, Attestation
& Deployment
Controls, Monitoring &
Governance
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Dashboards & Reports
Select Components
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Monitor & manage ever changing
regulations
•
Manage the policies and
procedures to support regulatory
requirements
•
Mechanisms for flexible and easy
reporting
•
Cloud-based offerings integrated
with internal data & applications
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DEMO
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Context: Compliance Information Management
Complex & Unpredictable
New rules &
regulations
Compliance
Results
Control audits
& evaluations
Updated
policies &
procedures
Detective &
Preventative
Controls
• Content from websites,
documents, databases,
spreadsheets, custom apps,
etc.
• Policies and controls must
be specialized for all
business units
• New rules, new business
units, new controls all have
a ripple effect
• Analysis needs to tie
together all aspects of the
compliance lifecycle at
arbitrary granularities
 Needs the flexibility,
models, and overlay
nature of semantics!
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