2026 Award Categories

Alternative Data Providers

Best Macro Economic Signal Provider
Awarded to the provider delivering the most accurate, timely, and actionable macroeconomic datasets that empower institutional investors to model global economic shifts and identify predictive market trends.

Best Real-Time News & Event Data Provider
Recognising the leading provider of structured, machine-readable news and event intelligence, enabling quantitative models and trading algorithms to react instantaneously to market-moving catalysts.

Best Sentiment & Social Media Data Provider
Celebrating the most sophisticated extraction and structuring of unstructured social media and sentiment data, converting vast digital discourse into reliable, quantifiable signals for alpha generation.

Best Digital & App Usage Data Provider
Awarded to the vendor supplying superior intelligence on web traffic, app engagement, and digital consumption, providing investment teams with leading indicators of corporate performance and consumer behavior.

Best Consumer Transaction & Payment Data Provider
Recognising the most granular, highly anonymized, and accurate transaction datasets that allow institutional analysts to forecast retail sales, track consumer spending patterns, and evaluate brand health.

Best B2B & Supply Chain Intelligence Provider
Highlighting the leading source of business-to-business and supply chain data, equipping investors with the visibility required to assess supply network resilience, vendor relationships, and industrial output.

Best Trade & Logistics Data Provider
Awarded to the provider delivering comprehensive insights into global trade flows, shipping logistics, and freight movements, crucial for modeling commodities, supply shocks, and international commerce.

Best Human Capital & Labor Market Data Provider
Recognising excellence in tracking workforce dynamics, talent migration, and hiring trends, offering predictive indicators of corporate growth, organizational health, and broader labor market health.

Best Expert Network & Primary Research Provider
Celebrating the premier network connecting institutional investors with specialized industry experts, facilitating deep, qualitative primary research essential for rigorous due diligence and fundamental analysis.

Best Transcripts & Filings Provider
Awarded to the platform providing the most robust, highly searchable, and structured database of corporate transcripts, earnings calls, and regulatory filings to streamline fundamental research workflows.

Best ESG & Sustainability Data Provider
Recognising the most rigorous, transparent, and comprehensive ESG datasets, empowering asset managers to accurately benchmark corporate sustainability, mitigate environmental risk, and meet regulatory reporting mandates.

Best Satellite & Weather Data Provider
Highlighting the provider offering superior satellite imagery and meteorological data, enabling precise geospatial analysis of agricultural yields, commodity production, and physical climate risks.

Best Geospatial Intelligence Provider
Awarded to the leader in translating raw location data and geospatial tracking into structured intelligence, allowing investors to monitor physical footfall, infrastructure development, and asset utilisation.

Best Crypto & Digital Asset Data Provider
Recognising the premier source of institutional-grade market data and on-chain analytics for the digital asset ecosystem, ensuring transparent and reliable pricing, liquidity, and blockchain activity metrics.

Best Private Company Data Provider
Celebrating the most comprehensive and accurate database on private markets, delivering essential intelligence on startup funding, valuations, and financial performance for private equity and venture capital.

Best Open Data Provider
Awarded to the most effective aggregator and structurer of public and open-source data, transforming disparate government, public health, and civic datasets into clean, actionable inputs for investment models.

Best Pricing Intelligence Provider
Recognising the provider delivering the most robust and accurate pricing data across complex or illiquid asset classes, providing essential transparency for valuation, risk management, and best execution.

Technology & Delivery

Best AI/ML Solution for Data Extraction & Analytics
Awarded to the platform leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to seamlessly extract, normalize, and analyze complex unstructured datasets, dramatically reducing time-to-insight for quantitative research.

Best NLP (Natural Language Processing) Solution
Recognising the most sophisticated NLP engine engineered for capital markets, excelling in parsing text-heavy financial documents, news, and transcripts to extract nuanced sentiment and factual intelligence.

Best Alt Data Integration & API Solution
Celebrating the superior technical framework or API that solves the structural challenge of data ingestion, enabling seamless, low-latency integration of fragmented alternative datasets into institutional workflows.

Best Cloud Delivery Solution for Alt Data
Awarded to the optimal cloud-based architecture facilitating secure, scalable, and high-performance delivery of massive alternative datasets to asset managers and systematic trading desks.

Industry Excellence

Best Newcomer: Alternative Data
Recognising a recently launched vendor or platform that has rapidly demonstrated exceptional market impact, providing a novel dataset or technological approach that solves an unmet need in institutional finance.

Alternative Data Provider of the Year
The premier award honoring the alternative data provider that has set the highest industry standard for data quality, technological innovation, client service, and measurable impact on alpha generation and operational efficiency over the past year.