The Wiley Finance Series : Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

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RavenPack is a leading provider of real-time news analysis services. Financial
professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing news
content on more than 27,000 publicly traded companies across 80 countries.
Financial institutions use RavenPack News Analytics to generate better returns by
systematically incorporating the effects of news in their investment process. The com-
pany’s clients include some of the best performing quantitative and algorithmic trading
firms in the world.
Diverse types of organizations are incorporating automated news analysis into their
decision-making process, from financial trading to risk management firms. Knowing
that the vast majority of content is trapped within unstructured text, RavenPack
unlocks actionable content from news for instantaneous delivery, whether to a group
of analysts at a top global bank or directly into algorithmic trading systems.


Head Office: New York


Other sites: (R&D) Marbella, Spain
(Data Center) Munich, Germany


President and Chief Executive Officer: Armando Gonzalez


Managing Director, Sales and Marketing: Don Williams


Chief Technology Officer: Jason Cornez


Director of Administration and Operations: Tania Calvo Macias


Key services


.RavenPack News Analytics Powered by a proprietary text analysis platform,
RavenPack analyzes novel and relevant stories published in all major news sources
to look for key events, announcements, and opinions that indicate changes in
sentiment on more than 27,000 publicly traded companies. Sampled news sources
represent the most reliable and authoritative publishers of business and financial
news. Published as ‘‘computer-readable’’ data elements on a real-time feed,
RavenPack News Analytics are the timeliest company sentiment indicators in the
marketplace.
.Tool/Services description Trading is increasingly automated, the financial industry is
more competitive than ever, and timing is everything. Firms are overloaded with
information and have turned to computers to read news and internet information.
With RavenPack News Analytics, what would take days for a trader to read and
interpret takes RavenPack computers only a few milliseconds. Now, the financial
professional can react much faster to the ever-increasing amounts of news and


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