Tellimer Group Launches New Insights Platform

Emerging markets information and data provider Tellimer Group will launch its new research platform, Tellimer Insights, this week.

The platform uses natural language processing (NLP) to personalize content and deliver daily insights on topics that are of interest to individual users.

“The platform is not a clever way of delivering our research. It’s a clever way of connecting anybody who’s trying to understand the emerging markets with anything we really believe is relevant in emerging markets,” says Duncan Wales, CEO of Tellimer.

One of the platform’s new features is infinite scrolling. “When you are interested in a particular subject, you can search it, continue to scroll down, and the AI will curate the most relevant other elements using NLP,” Wales says.

The cloud-delivered platform will cater primarily to mobile devices, and could help to make remote working more efficient. From their devices, analysts can use the tool to write, edit, publish, and read insights on the platform, which aims to give investors, corporates, and advisors accessible information on emerging markets. Users of Tellimer Insights will be able to follow subjects, companies, countries, and individual analysts.

The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and deploys Amazon Machine Learning and TensorFlow, the open-source machine learning library. Tellimer plans to become fully serverless in order to increase scalability. 

The new platform went live to a select group of existing clients on April 8, with the full launch to follow on April 15. The key difference is that the platform has been modified to give the company more control over its implementation of AI.

Tellimer Group rebranded a year ago after 20 years as Exotix Capital. The firm specializes in providing information on global emerging markets. In December of last year, Exotix Partners LLP, Tellimer Capital Ltd (Nigeria), and Tellimer’s broking business, Tellimer Markets Inc., were sold to global broking business International FCStone.

Since the acquisition, Tellimer Group has been working on bolstering its Insights platform. “We’ve been working 24/6 for the last three months, as we completely rebuilt the system we already had,” Wales says.

Tellimer Group currently has more than 1,000 subscribers, made up of institutional investors, banks, insight providers, companies and sovereigns spanning 85 emerging markets.