Financial Services
Banking · Insurance · Investing

The Financial Services industry faces new challenges resulting from government deregulation, increased merger activity and intense competition across all sectors, including:

• Data Proliferation
• Complex Data Schemas & Hierarchies
• Customer Privacy
• Increasing Regulatory Requirement
• Operational Efficiency
• Outsourcing

MicroStrategy helps financial services providers execute sophisticated analyses against data assets to increase customer profitability, enhance customer service, manage risk and reduce operating costs.

Financial Services Application Areas
Report example	Financial Analysis & Compliance: MicroStrategy enables financial services providers to take the pulse of their business whenever needed. Customer Snapshot: Chela Financial » Learn more
Report example	Marketing: MicroStrategy enables financial services providers to hone their marketing programs to specifically win and retain profitable customers. Customer Snapshot: Grange Insurance » Learn more
Report example	Sales & Trading: MicroStrategy provides access to a wide range of transaction, market, trading & customer-specific data, enabling users to compare & analyze it for trends and insight. Customer Snapshot: LG Card » Learn more
Report example	Operations: MicroStrategy allows users to compare operational metrics across the enterprise to create accurate, real-time reports that identify areas that can be streamlined. Customer Snapshot: Amlin Plc »Learn more
Report example	Advisory Services: MicroStrategy reporting and information distribution capabilities allow financial services providers to serve customers more proactively. Customer Snapshot: LoanPerformance » Learn more
Report example	Fraud Profiling & Risk Analysis: MicroStrategy incorporates solutions that help management uncover internal & external fraud, identify criminals for prosecution & deter fraudulent activity. Customer Shapshot: ChoHung Bank » Learn more

The MicroStrategy platform delivers a business intelligence solution that addresses the specific challenges and trends of financial services providers, including:

• Support for banking data schemas -- characterized by their complexity & large number of elements. MicroStrategy has the highest degree of flexibility required to support large, complex data schemas.
• Drill anywhere capability -- essential to investigate the many interrelated hierarchies related to “customers”.
• Integrated financial libraries -- allow building of complex models, enabling sophisticated financial analysis.
• Flexible hierarchies -- necessary to make sense of complex customer-centric information.
• A robust security architecture & controls -- protect customer financial data and ensures regulatory compliance.