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Alternative data tools and services

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.

Intelligence 26 Oct 2021
Dependencies and disruptions: alternative data in supply chains

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.

Intelligence 19 Oct 2021
How to buy China data in the age of data localization

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?

Intelligence 13 Oct 2021
A Primer on Open Banking in 2021

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?

Intelligence 6 Oct 2021
Nowcasting inflation with high-frequency data

Global supply shortages and pandemic-driven stimulus measures have been fueling prices in many major economies. Some economists are even starting to throw down terms like ‘stagflation’ and ‘wage-inflation spiral’. Are these price spikes temporary? Or are they a reflection of longer-term price trends?

Intelligence 28 Sep 2021
SaaS fever: The alternative datasets you need to know

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.

Intelligence 22 Sep 2021
Natural Language Processing: A birds-eye view

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.

Intelligence 14 Sep 2021
Clickstream data revisited

Exactly one year since we analysed the state of the market, we revisit the clickstream data landscape. We breakdown the vendor ecosystem by output granularity, data collection method, and client uptake.

Intelligence 7 Sep 2021
ESG data for fixed income securities (Part I)

Most ESG research nowadays focuses on equities, so it has been less clear on how ESG considerations can be applied to fixed income investments. Since 1Q21, Neudata have received numerous requests for ESG data for fixed income instruments, from sovereign bonds, to municipal bond, securitized debt, private debt, senior loans, and large syndicated leveraged loans. We publish this two-part Intelligence report in response to this influx of investor interest.

Intelligence 1 Sep 2021
‘Code red for humanity’: understanding physical climate risk

From fatalities caused by hard rainfall in Zhengzhou, China, to new temperature records set in Canada (49.6°C) — 2021 keeps bringing unprecedented climate-related surprises. In part I, we delve into the mechanics of estimating physical climate risk and highlight the available datasets to monitor and manage it.

Intelligence 24 Aug 2021

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