Goldman Sachs has emerged as the largest investor in a financial analyticsstart-up that enables institutions to mine a wealth of big data,underscoringWall Street’s drive to tap technology.
高盛(Goldman Sachs)成为一家金融分析初创公司的最大投资者，后者让金融机构挖掘大数据。此举凸显出华尔街在投资技术方面的动力。
Goldman led a $15m round of financing in Kensho,an analytics platform thatcan instantly answer millions of complex financial questions by automatingpreviously human-intensive research. The bank will roll out the platformacross its business as well as to some of its big clients.
Kensho是一个数据分析平台，可以自动完成过去人力密集型的研究，即刻回答数以百万计的复杂金融问题。高盛为其牵头完成一轮1500万美元的融资。该行将在自己的各个业务部门部署这一平台，并将其推广给一些大客户。
Kensho,which has been likened to a Siri-style service for investors,analystsand traders,enables them to ask questions such as,“what happens to UShomebuilder stocks if a category three hurricane makes landfall?”
Kensho被比作为面向投资者、分析师和交易员的Siri风格的服务，让他们提出自然语言的问题，如：“如果3级飓风登陆，美国住宅开发商板块的股票会怎么样?”
Data scientists estimate that 80 per cent of all data come in unstructuredform; being able to quickly analyse this wealth of information is the holy grailfor banks seeking to use big data to augment their business.
数据科学家估计，80%的数据以非结构化形式出现;能够迅速分析如此丰富信息的平台，是那些寻求利用大数据增进业务的银行梦寐以求的神器。
“Wall Street historically was constrained to playing in the 20 per cent of datathat move markets,” said Daniel Nadler,Kensho chief executive. “Every WallStreet bank could only look at – with any real speed or automation – financialstatistics: p/E ratios,and book value and market cap and similar things.”
“一直以来，华尔街都受困于只能利用20%足以影响市场的数据，”Kensho的首席执行官丹尼尔•纳德勒(Daniel Nadler)称，“每一家华尔街银行只能以实际速度或自动化的方式，看那些金融数据：市盈率(p/E ratios)，账面价值(book value)，市值(marketcap)和类似数据。
He said not being able to quickly analyse hard-to-structure events – centralbank announcements,geopolitical events,weather phenomena,technologyproduct releases – was “trying to see the world with not only one eyecovered,but one eye covered and the other eye half-closed.”
他表示，不能快速分析那些难以结构化的事件——央行公告、地缘政治事件、天气现象以及科技产品发布——相当于“在看世界时不仅是一只眼被遮住，而且是一只眼被遮住、另一只眼半闭着。”
Initially called “Warren” in a nod to both the billionaire octogenarian investorWarren Buffett and the IBM supercomputer known as “Watson”,the platformhas been rebranded to match the company’s name,Kensho,partly onGoldman’s advice.
该平台最初命名为“沃伦”，意在向80多岁的亿万富豪沃伦•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)和IBM公司的超级计算机“沃森”(Watson)致敬。后来在高盛的建议下，该平台已改名为“Kensho”，跟公司名保持一致。
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