Thinknum co-founder on leave amid missed paychecks
The web-scraped data provider is one of the best known vendors in the alternative data space.
Alternative Data News and Insight
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The Signal: Buy-side firms are outsourcing data services
In our May edition, we recap a study on outsourced data services, highlight a dataset that can be used to track unemployment levels, and share the names of three vendors that can provide insight into the fundamentals of popular tech stocks like Netflix, Amazon and Ticketmaster.
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May Tidbits: Thoughts on hiQ v LinkedIn + popular crypto data
Request a copy of our hiQ/LinkedIn webinar recording and explore trending topics in the crypto space. -
Emerging Markets: Top datasets and future gazing
We reflect on an area of alternative data that has recently seen increased interest from data buyers: emerging markets. We utilise our position in the industry as well as our own proprietary metadata, to look at the alternative data landscape in this relatively obscure region. -
POS data: Products, Problems and Predictions
In this Intelligence report, we conduct an overview of the POS transactional data market. Further, we provide intelligence on potential market entries to the space and how those may impact the market. -
ESG credit ratings and the Big Three
A 2021 paper analysed how Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch, integrate ESG into their sovereign credit ratings. We add to the research’s demarcation between the three methodologies and highlight alternative ESG credit rating providers
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People moves (19 May 2022): J O Hambro, Yipit, Vatic and more
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The Signal: Buy-side firms are outsourcing data services
In our May edition, we recap a study on outsourced data services, highlight a dataset that can be used to track unemployment levels, and share the names of three vendors that can provide insight into the fundamentals of popular tech stocks like Netflix, Amazon and Ticketmaster. -
Emerging Markets: Top datasets and future gazing
We reflect on an area of alternative data that has recently seen increased interest from data buyers: emerging markets. We utilise our position in the industry as well as our own proprietary metadata, to look at the alternative data landscape in this relatively obscure region. -
ESG credit ratings and the Big Three
A 2021 paper analysed how Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch, integrate ESG into their sovereign credit ratings. We add to the research’s demarcation between the three methodologies and highlight alternative ESG credit rating providers -
Investment research platforms AlphaSense, Sentieo merge
Investment research platform AlphaSense has acquired competitor Sentieo. Both firms allow customers to semantically search financial documents, like SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, trade journals, news and more. Sentieo will operate under ... -
POS data: Products, Problems and Predictions
In this Intelligence report, we conduct an overview of the POS transactional data market. Further, we provide intelligence on potential market entries to the space and how those may impact the market. -
Thinknum co-founder on leave amid missed paychecks
The web-scraped data provider is one of the best known vendors in the alternative data space. -
What’s dangerous to scrape post-hiQ?
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' April 18th, 2022 opinion was very favorable for webscraping companies and their clients. -
How corporations can get started with external data (Part II)
Corporations may have a skeletal external data team at first. This intelligence piece lays out the roles needed in the process of onboarding external data, and the existing service providers that these functions can be outsourced to. We also analyse the results from a recent Neudata survey of 45 data providers on corporate data buyers’ needs. -
People moves (5 May 2022): Two Sigma, Man Group and more
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