What Kind of Data Are We Typically Thinking About in Financial Services?

HSBC has over 300 petabytes of data across the firm. If we convert all the data into text, it would be more text than all the books and all the great libraries of the world combined. There is some structured data, your usual suspects - account information, passport details,. A lot of unstructured data from information about our customers... And increasingly, we're also having to understand more about the impact our business and our customers business are having on the world.