If you can’t beat them, buy them. In this report, we summarise the competitive landscape of the booming ESG data market. We summarise 1) how the major data players are enhancing their sustainability product offerings through various acquisitions, 2) the innovations & trends within the ESG data space and, 3) our predictions for the types of datasets and specific vendors that might be acquired next.

Earlier this year, Neudata discussed the “next frontier” of alternative data: emerging markets. In the months following our 1Q21 report on the topic, our clients have expressed increased interest in data sources that can help track this obscure region – for both macro and company-level use cases. This Intelligence report revisits alternative data for the emerging markets, drawing attention to three dataset categories that we deem most pertinent when investigating this territory.

As the alternative data market grows in China, Chinese mutual funds are beginning to use alternative data to structure their fund products and explore short-term investment opportunities in the region. In this report, we give an overview of how Chinese mutual funds are currently using Chinese alternative data, focusing on individual activity data and business process data.

In part II of our climate risk report, we delve into the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy and highlight alternative data sources for navigating the changing landscape.

Over the past 12 months, we have been observing increased interest from our clients for alternative data solutions and service providers – namely, web scraping services, NLP tools, backtesting and signal detecting services, and portfolio analytics platforms.

Supply chain issues have littered the news over the past year, from the Ever Given wedged across the Suez Canal, to chip and gas shortages. In this report, we provide a high-level summary of how alternative data can provide succinct overviews of supply chains, identify potential risks and opportunities, and highlight ethical considerations.

Chinese data vendors are learning to cope with a brand-new systematic governance of “key and core data”, what shall international investors do to keep engaging with the Chinese economy through alternative data?

Open banking is a term that is frequently banded around in the context of consumer transaction data – but what do we mean by open banking and why should users of transaction data pay attention to open banking developments?

At Neudata, alternative datasets pertaining to tech stocks, namely SaaS stocks, appear to always be of interest to our readers. In this Intelligence report, we breakdown the data sources that track various performance drivers for SaaS stocks, the key vendors that offer such datasets, and potential dataset challenges for those hoping to onboard such offerings.

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.