September Tidbits: Regulations & Mergers
In this month's edition of Tidbits, we discuss App Annie & the SEC, vendor M&A and Australian open banking laws.
Alternative Data News and Insight
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August Tidbits: Summer Edition
In the August edition of Tidbits, we talk about how regulators are approaching the IHS Markit-S&P Global merger, discuss issues with TV measurement data, and explore the size of the alternative data market in China. -
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. -
June Tidbits: Future-proofing web-scraped data
We assess the future of web-scraped data following key legal decisions in the US, investigate the latest consumer privacy platform updates within Apple and Google that could impact alternative data collection, and highlight several private equity data use-cases. -
May Tidbits: Provider M&A Activity
We discuss Yodlee’s latest regulatory and legal updates, new data provider acquisition activity, and our list of exclusive datasets for May. -
April Tidbits: Are Funds Buying More Alt Data?
This month, we discuss Apple’s release of iOS 14.5, a new study on hedge fund performance and data buying efforts, and consolidation in the e-receipt data space. -
March Tidbits: Neudata Scoops & Ship Tracking Data
We discuss global freight data in the wake of last week’s Suez Canal blockage, delve into some sampling bias in geolocation data sources, and introduce a new platform feature called Neudata Scoops. -
February Tidbits: Tracking Transactional Data
This month, we take a look at new regulatory developments affecting data users in the US, UK and EU, evaluate new entrants to the transactional data market, and introduce our new column on vendor research. -
January Tidbits: Reddit & The Animal Spirits
This month, we discuss the retail investing trading mania that hit markets last week, as well as the leadership shuffle at the US’s top regulatory firms and what happens when one of the alternative data world’s long-standing datasets suddenly disappears. -
December Tidbits: 2020 In Review
In our final edition of the year, we discuss some of the most popular themes of 2020, including COVID-19’s impact on alt data collection and usefulness, consumer privacy developments, and dataset discontinuations.