Data is just the beginning

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

We are looking forward to great success with our customers in 2019 as we all rise to incredible new opportunities presented by the global financial markets adopting new technology and data. 2019 is only two days old and we have already collected, processed and distributed 40 billion data points, but collecting and distributing data is just the beginning.

I am excited by the increased investment and the innovations we will deliver across Refinitiv in 2019; it will be an amazing year! We will continue to improve customer service levels, accelerate new content and product releases – Desktop, Wealth Management and across our Elektron Data Platform to name just a few areas. We will continue to drive our Open Platform Strategy enabling open integration with over 2,000 partners and content providers, with tens of thousands of developers building on our data platform, our APIs and integration tools to leverage the data on our platform.

The industry themes shaping 2019 are clear, as are our priorities – how to harness data and AI to power a smarter wealth advisor, or deliver broader, deeper and new content sets for traders, analysts or portfolio managers? How to continue to deliver our content in the cloud so it is easier, cheaper, and faster to access. How to integrate data with powerful analytics and workflow tools to drive smarter trading execution, or better investment strategies? How to deliver data to customers that is “AI ready”? How to deliver better data to enable more sustainable investments in a world that urgently needs to de-carbonise? How to deploy data and AI to support the continued fight against financial crime, establishing trust, speeding up client on-boarding and managing increasing complex and onerous regulatory and compliance risks?

Collecting and delivering data is just the beginning to solving these challenges, it’s applying the analytics and tools, the domain expertise, empowering developer communities through open integration capabilities – this is how we help our clients solve these, and many other challenges across the 190 countries we operate.

I am looking forward to advancing together with our customers, partners and employees beyond the speed of change, delivering new capabilities, technology, data and expertise in our people, for joint success and a very prosperous 2019! In this new era, data is just the beginning