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Bad data affects us all. But when your data is directly correlated to your bottom line, that data downtime takes on a whole new dimension. Financial services companies are becoming increasingly reliant on the accuracy of first-party data to power top-line revenue drivers. And PrimaryBid is just one example of that. As a platform provider that helps companies connect retail investors to capital market transactions like IPOs, PrimaryBid requires an incredible degree of data volume and accuracy to protect the interests of its stakeholders. “Building and maintaining predictive models requires a steady stream of market stock price data,” said Andy Turner, Director Data & AI, “The source of that data needs to be absolutely 100% robust, or the predictions coming out of the models that we’re serving in production will fail.” In preparation for its global expansion, the PrimaryBid team decided to rebuild their data stack from the ground up in order to massively increase the scale of their operations—and that increased scale meant the risk and impact of bad data was about to get even greater. The Monte Carlo team sat down with Andy and three other members of the PrimaryBid team: Ian Harris, Director of Data Engineering, Jonathan Dungay, Analytics & BI Lead, and Rick Wang, Staff Data Engineer — to find out how they were preparing for data quality at scale—and how data observability was helping their team set a new gold standard for financial data reliability. Check out the link in the description for the full story.