DLLAB DAY 2018 Track1 14:00-14:40

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NOWCAST Inc.
June 21, 2018
資産運用とビックデータ解析
DLLAB DAY 2018

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FINATEXT
Each Group Company CapabilitySummary
Finatext
Nowcast
Smartplus
Founded December 2013. Provide mobile
financial service with 2m users.
Branches in Taiwan / Malaysia / UK
Acquired in 2016. Big Data analysis
service for institutional investors.
Launch in 2018. BaaS(Brokerage as a
Service) execution function platform.
Realization of highly flexible securities
front development via API releases.
● Mobile UI/UX Development
● User community design and operation
● Unique financial services based on
technology
● Big Data Analytics
● Japan Stock Execution Platform
We have grown into 8 companies in 6 countries
over 4 years

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Usage of Alternative Data
Planned Spending on Alternative Data Market Size of Alternative Data
• Although market size of alternative data
currently stands at USD 400m, it is
expected to be USD 1,708m by 2020
• As it is becoming harder for active funds
to generate returns that beat the market,
attention is turning to the use of
alternative data to new investment
insights.
Source：Greenwich Associate
In an environment where it is becoming increasingly difficult for active funds to produce returns, alternative
data different to conventional settlement information and government statistics data is gathering attention.
5%
21%
74%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Less
Same
More
Source：AlternativeData.org

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What is Alternative Data?
Investors trying to differentiate investment
performance with big data
Most interesting item among Big data is Consumer Transaction Data
Source：Source：Citigroup Global MarketsSource：Financial Times

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▪ Is organic data optimal for the purpose?
e.g.
▪ POS data for CPI, for Maker’s activity
▪ Credit card data for Consumption indices,
▪ Does machine learning approach exploit organic data to the
fullest?
Every organic data requires various tricks.
How does organic data work?
Organic
Source data
?
?
?
??Machine
Learning

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Challenges for Investment Insights
Challenges Methodology Source data
Stock recommendation by
deep learning
- Deep learning
- Clustering
- Financial information
- Stock prices
- Macro indicators
Algorithmic trading by
deep learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Deep learning
- Stock prices
- Macro indicators
- Transaction data
Sentiment indicators
- Natural language
processing
- Deep learning
- News text
- SNS text
Extracting insights
with hierarchical Bayes
- Hierarchical Bayes MCMC
- Transaction data
- Transaction property
- Weather information
Advanced clustering of
time series data
- Dynamic Time Warping - Transaction data
- Statement data

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• Model Details
e.g. POS data for Producer’s activity
Quarterly POS Sales Forecasting Model
The model to forecast quarterly pos sales based on weekly
sales.
Sales Forecasting Model
The model to forecast overall sales based on Quarterly sales forecasted
value

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• Back test results of our quarter sales forecast
e.g. POS data for Producer’s activity
±1σ
±1σ
Even compared to Market Consensus, our
forecast is more accurate.
For 33 companies’ quarter sales covered
by Market consensus, we calculated our
forecast error shown in the left graph and
RMSE below.
RMSE of our forecast/
market consensus vs actual sales
Our forecast: 3.97%
Market consensus: 4.88%

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e.g. POS data for Producer’s activity
▪ What is expected from model?

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▪ We are fully capable of being “supply chain core” in Big Data
market
▪ The point is …
whether you want one brilliant figure
or want to explore the possibilities.
Scope of Data analytics of our business
Prospecting
Source data
Mining
Source data
Forging
Cleansed data
Smithing
Product
Prospection
Agency service
Brokerage
Pre-Model
Data
Investment
Insights

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▪ We build a ‘Macro indicator’ as a prospecting tool
▪ From that data is just a stone or brilliant ore
to develop forging methodology to extract the complete
capacity of the source.
▪ In this sense,
the length of the time series is an important key.
Why Nowcast?
Prospecting
Source data
Mining
Source data
Forging
Cleansed data
Macro
Indicator

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NOWCAST Inc.
June 21, 2018
資産運用とビックデータ解析
DLLAB DAY 2018