Data is crucial for investors to practice the best actions and serves as the core when it comes to banking and investment services, especially in today’s digital ecosystem. An investment professional can use statistics to perform research and analysis of the stock market and determine how to improve the performance of an investment portfolio. It is not a secret that in order to make smarter investing decisions, access to high-qualified data is the key. 

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FactSet is an industry-leading data technology company, that creates flexible and open financial data, data analysis, and software solutions, providing access anytime, anywhere for over globally 170,000 investment professionals to improve their efficiency and productivity: 

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“We want to listen to our clients and our new clients and understand what they need, what are their pain points and how we help them and equip them to find the data, the technology, and the service they need to succeed,” says Pascale Wazen Palpied, Director of EMEA Sales at FactSet. 

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FactSet dedicated over 40 years to providing high-qualified and streamlined third-party data and proprietary data and has achieved significant outcomes in assisting professionals’ performance growth and profitability. Within its 16 years in the EMEA region, it grows rapidly and continuously stayed innovative in the technology landscape. 

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For instance, more recently, FactSet started to offer its clients access to programmatically acquiring information natively stored within their own environments, which improves the efficiency for them to customize and tailor their operations to fit specific needs:  

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“Computing power has always been the limitation when it comes to quantitative research. And within the concept of the research environment, innovative technology allows our clients to use ingenuity and imagination to figure out different ideas, research different ideas, and test them before they put them into practice,” explains further by Carl Cedstrand, Senior Director of EMEA Sales at FactSet. 

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The Middle East is seen as one of the globe’s rapidly growing tech sectors. Digitization efforts are reshaping e-commerce, education, and fintech across the region as a result of government initiatives and investments. To better serve the clients in the EMEA region, FactSet always holds the principle of being a client-centric company. As Ms. Palpied says, “we are global but at the same time very attached to our regional presence. We understand the trends, the challenges, and the opportunities of our clients and can personalize our service and tailor it to them.”

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What’s more, FactSet is committed to community building and looking to foster a globally inclusive culture, for example, the initiative it promoted- FactSet EMEA Women Business Resource Group - enables its employees to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace. And in a result, FactSet has scored 100 on the Corporate Equality Index™, earning the distinction of Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality, for the seventh consecutive year. 

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As Ms. Palpied speaks from her experience of being a female leader at FactSet, “being a woman and a leader in the EMEA region came with a set of challenges, especially in the beginning. But the region has changed and there are more gender representations in the sector I am working in, and it makes me proud.”

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FactSet will continue holding its ambitions of providing high-quality data services and innovative technology solutions for its clients to boost investment successes, and for prospecting the future, “I believe that digital transformation will continue to be a big part of the journey that our clients are going to be facing. As part of that, there will need to be a lot of efficiency improvements. Technology will play a bigger part in how we interact or clients who interact with their clients as well,” says Mr. Cedstrand. 

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