Our roundup of some of the most interesting alternative data provider updates over the past month. Examples include: a procurement data provider signs up a NY-based quant fund, a clickstream data provider receives its fair share of negative press and an e-receipt data provider reveals their panel has dropped by 75%.

By Daryl Smith, on 13 February 2018 Estimated reading time: 2.5 minutes Around twenty years ago, alternative data and machine learning techniques were being used by a select group of innovative hedge funds and asset managers. In recent years howe...

By Rado Lipuš, on 21 September 2017 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I was recently on a data panel at a quant conference in New York. Two things surprised me: the large number of family offices approaching me for information about alternative d...