FactSet has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ESG data provider TruValue Labs, the companies announced on Tuesday. TruValue, which was founded in 2013, applies natural language procession (NLP) to over 100,000 unstructured text source...

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund is studying the integration of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) into its portfolios, as part of its on-going research into applying data-driven methods to the manager selection process.

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Citadel, DE Shaw, Ravenpack and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

Robinhood is considering a proposal to make its customer trading activity data public once more, after it turned off access to its API in August, according to Bloomberg. “We’re looking into it,” Robinhood co-founder Vladimir Tenev reportedly told ...

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Blackrock, Geospark Analytics, Captify, DMALINK and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

CausaLens, a provider of signal testing technology, has released an update to its platform to incorporate more robust cause-and-effect relationship mapping. The three-year-old company uses proprietary automated machine learning (AutoML) to build p...

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Surveyor Capital, CPPIB, Factual and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

Quant investors responded to the market dislocations that have rattled funds this year, including what happens when previously esoteric trades start to get crowded, how the actions of governments impact investors, and some of the solutions managers can use in the future.

The group discussed the pressure for more transparency in vendor relationships, how standardised due diligence documents have changed data vendor evaluations, and their current views on the state of web-scraping in America.

Panellists discussed the rise of the “freemium” alt data model, including their approaches to evaluation these datasets and tips for vendors who are looking to launch freemium offerings.