APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia

While panelists agreed that analyzing large volumes of public unstructured data─such as social media and sentiment data─as well as the ability to apply Big Data analysis to internal datasets are both valuable, they disagreed on where these techniques can be put to best use, and how they can be monetized to deliver a trading advantage.

"Over the last two decades, banks have invested a lot in structured data. And over the next few years, we'll be figuring out how we deal with unstructured data,"