With 2025 underway, we look back at 2024 and discuss the areas of the alternative landscape that saw an outsized interest. Certain dataset types garnered high levels of interest in 2024 but dipped below their peaks in 2023, and we discuss why we think that is.

In January 2024, we looked at 10 data products that might not survive the year. In this update, we summarise the state of those products and their vendors.

There is an ever-high demand for market data in China amid the increasing number of investors in the space. This report is the first in a series of intelligence pieces that aims to shed light on China’s market data landscape.

At our New York Winter Data Summit, we discussed ‘what finance bros need to know about the climate crisis.’ In this report, we summarise the themes of this presentation, including how the climate crisis could impact those working in the finance industry, and the investment strategies that can help mitigate the damage caused to the global environment. We also highlight the alternative datasets that can add alpha for short-term climate investment strategies.

This report outlines co-location’s role in enhancing high-frequency trading, from low-latency direct exchange access to global connectivity, tailored to data needs.

Building permit data has a broad range of use cases for investment managers. With interest rates decreasing and construction spending projected to increase, this data has never been more relevant.

After racking up losses of nearly $8bn YTD, Boeing is expected to burn cash well into 2025. In this intelligence piece, we show how alternative data can be used to assess plane makers’ KPIs.

Due to persistent interest in Meta's performance, this report explores datasets to help readers understand its ad revenues using alternative data. While this analysis is directed towards Meta, it is also applicable to other digital advertising platforms such as Google, Pinterest and Snapchat.

Taiwan is crucial to the global AI hardware supply chain, with TSMC leading as the world's largest semiconductor foundry. Notably, six of the top 10 electronics manufacturing services, as reported in 2Q24 corporate earnings, are based in Taiwan. This Intelligence report compiles local datasets that can gauge Taiwan's economic progression, particularly within its vital information and communication hardware manufacturing sector.

Both Apple and Google are major players in tech development and are no strangers to AI. But recent announcements and product launches have raised questions about the extent of their AI capabilities. This intelligence piece attempts to answer these questions to verify whether a company’s AI claims are genuine, by investing in alternative data.