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Eric A. Sohn, CAMS (eric.sohn@dowjones.com), global market strategist and product director, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, New York, NY, USA.

There is a very wide range of text matching tools, both standalone and embedded, currently available in the marketplace. The conundrum, says Eric Sohn of Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, lies in how to properly evaluate and select one of the myriad offerings – or how to design one’s own. Whether buying or building a solution, a valid design or evaluation process is particularly knotty, involving a significant set of design trade-offs.