How do ESG considerations impact corporate bonds?
We summarize a study that investigated the impact of ESG screening on fixed income asset pricing, and also explored whether ESG data offers investors an information advantage.
Alternative Data News and Insight
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Natural Language Processing: A birds-eye view
Technical and theoretical advancements over the past two decades, coupled with open-source software, has fueled an explosion of sentiment data providers. In this report, we provide a lay of the land, focusing on the three key types of sentiment vendors based on underlying source - news content, social media, and investor communications. Within each category, we highlight use cases, trends, and prominent players.
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July Tidbits: Geolocation data has a reputation problem
How Open Finance will affect US transactional data vendors, concerning headlines about phone-derived geolocation data and consumer privacy, and new regulatory disclosures in China. -
Quandl rebrands to Nasdaq Data Link
The rebranding comes three years after the alternative data marketplace was purchased by Nasdaq. -
Inside the App Annie enforcement action – 6 lessons learned
On Tuesday, the SEC agreed to settle securities fraud charges with App Annie for engaging in deceptive practices and making material misrepresentations about how its alternative data was derived between 2014 and 2018. -
People moves (16 Sept ‘21): RIWI, CoStar, Semrush and more
In this week's round up, we report on people moves in the alternative data industry at RIWI, CoStar, Semrush and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at [email protected] RIWI CONTINUES MGMT SHUFFLE, LAUNCHES NEW PRO...
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The Signal: Which data vendor made misleading location data claims?
In our September edition, we analyse rideshare spend, highlight a disagreement over footfall trends between two popular location data providers, evaluate e-commerce growth for Asia-Pacific and Australia, and explore the tourism sector in India and Caribbean. -
People moves (16 Sept ‘21): RIWI, CoStar, Semrush and more
In this week's round up, we report on people moves in the alternative data industry at RIWI, CoStar, Semrush and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at [email protected] RIWI CONTINUES MGMT SHUFFLE, LAUNCHES NEW PRO... -
App Annie: Intel from the Desk of our Head of Research
Responding to the latest SEC enforcement action against App Annie, Neudata's head of research Daryl Smith outlines the implications for the alternative data industry. -
Inside the App Annie enforcement action – 6 lessons learned
On Tuesday, the SEC agreed to settle securities fraud charges with App Annie for engaging in deceptive practices and making material misrepresentations about how its alternative data was derived between 2014 and 2018. -
Natural Language Processing: A birds-eye view
Technical and theoretical advancements over the past two decades, coupled with open-source software, has fueled an explosion of sentiment data providers. In this report, we provide a lay of the land, focusing on the three key types of sentiment vendors based on underlying source - news content, social media, and investor communications. Within each category, we highlight use cases, trends, and prominent players. -
People moves (9 Sept ‘21): Ashler Capital, Yewno, Fidelity and more
Submit your promotions, job changes and open roles to [email protected] for inclusion in next week's newsletter. -
Quandl rebrands to Nasdaq Data Link
The rebranding comes three years after the alternative data marketplace was purchased by Nasdaq. -
How do ESG considerations impact corporate bonds?
We summarize a study that investigated the impact of ESG screening on fixed income asset pricing, and also explored whether ESG data offers investors an information advantage. -
Clickstream data revisited
Exactly one year since we analysed the state of the market, we revisit the clickstream data landscape. We breakdown the vendor ecosystem by output granularity, data collection method, and client uptake. -
IHS forms data partnership with FinTech Studios
Data giant IHS Markit has formed a partnership with FinTech Studios, which will allow the vendor to provide additional data to IHS’s thinkFolio investment management platform. The relationship will help bolster thinkFolio’s product, which provides...
