China's effort to control the information leaving its shores has escalated with the vigorous enforcement of laws and regulations targeting offshore data transfers. The endeavor has caused disruptions for data vendors with China-focused product offerings as they adapt to evolving compliance standards. However, despite the confusion, buyers can still take viable measures to mitigate risk, and as with any significant regulatory change, the adjustment period will eventually end.

While many important takeaways can be gleaned from the panel, two stand out...

As a riskier category of alternative data, transactional data's relationship to the consumer and financial spaces comes with a host of unique compliance considerations. We’ve examined transactional data vendor responses on our platform to highlight some surprising characteristics.

Not really. We do see a substantial decline in the number of new datasets paired with an increase in discontinuations, however...

The terms web-crawling and web-scraping are often used synonymously in the alternative data space. However, they are two distinct methods of gathering data. Understanding the differences between them can inform how buyers diligence vendors that source data through crawling, scraping, or a combination of the two.

Honestly, we don't know yet. AI is likely to impact data buyers and sellers across the board – not only in terms of compliance, but also with respect to commercial capabilities and governance.

Location data has long been considered a high-risk data category. Recently, it’s been at the center of several high-profile legal battles and regulatory actions involving issues of privacy and consent – most notably in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned in June 2022. In response, we’ve seen a marked decline in new location data products and a considerable increase in discontinuations.

On March 2nd, 2023, Neudata hosted four employees of the Securities Exchange Commission, including Regional Director Silvestre Fontes, on an in-person panel addressing regulatory issues in alternative data. We provide our analysis and commentary on the panel.

We spend a disproportionate amount of time analyzing data diligence practices and compliance procedures, largely because many buyers and sellers of alternative data consider them the critical risk mitigators in using alternative data. But...

Centered on the idea that regulated buyers have a duty to exercise good judgment and act in the best interest of their investors, ESG data compliance can generally be distilled into two questions: Are funds getting what they paid for from data vendors? And are they properly marketing and disclosing their ESG-related investment methods and strategies to their investors?