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Private Market GPs Unhappy with Data Availability, Unsure About AI Value
General partners (GPs) within the private equity space are dissatisfied with the quality of data available to them at a time when technology is rapidly transforming the sector. Despite being upbeat about the prospects for deals in the coming year, fund allocators are more pessimistic about their operations amid a shortage of digital operational and…
Beyond the Benchmark: Bloomberg Extends BCOM for a Fragmented Commodity Market
When the Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) was launched in 1998, the architecture made sense for its time. Liquidity in commodity futures was concentrated in North American contracts denominated in US dollars, and the methodology was built accordingly. Twenty-eight years later the way global commodity markets operate and the way institutional investors want to access them…
Why Data Quality Isn’t Always What the Textbook Says It Is
The standard taxonomy for data quality – accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, point-in-time integrity, lineage – is easy to find in any vendor deck or industry guide. It is also increasingly beside the point. What the institutional buy side actually measures, and what it cares about when money is on the line, diverges sharply from that…
The Case for Multimodal Macro: Toward a New Standard for Economic Measurement
Institutional investors still anchor macro trading decisions to government economic releases. But the data infrastructure behind those releases is eroding. For example, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which runs the surveys underpinning some of the most market-moving numbers in the world, has seen the response rate on its Job-openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS survey)…
FPGA-Accelerated Engine from Exegy Will Power EU’s First Equities Consolidated Tape
EuroCTP, the joint venture of 15 European exchange groups selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to deliver the EU’s first real-time consolidated tape for shares and ETFs, has named Exegy as its core technology partner. Exegy’s FPGA-accelerated ticker plant will serve as the data normalisation and consolidation engine at the centre of…
Synthetic Data’s Real Value Isn’t Alpha – It’s Confidence
The alternative data industry has largely settled the question of whether synthetic data has a place in institutional workflows. The harder question – and the one that dominated a lively panel discussion at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New York – is where exactly that place is, and how far practitioners should trust…
Canoe and Bloomberg Advance Portfolio Analytics and Risk Workflows with Private Fund Data
Canoe Intelligence and Bloomberg have launched a certified integration designed to automate the delivery of private fund data into Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, addressing a long-standing operational challenge for asset owners managing portfolios across public and private markets. The integration is intended to reduce manual reporting and make private fund information more accessible within established portfolio…
S&P Global’s Private Markets Data Play: From Accidental Clearing House to Industry Platform
S&P Global, Cambridge Associates and Mercer have launched a joint private markets performance analytics product, the first commercial release from a collaboration announced last year. The initial datasets cover private credit and real assets, with private equity to follow later this year. For institutional data teams, what’s interesting about this launch isn’t so much the…
Alt Data’s New Competitive Edge: From Discovery to Synthesis
Has the alternative data industry crossed a maturity threshold? The competitive advantage has migrated from simply having access to novel datasets to building superior frameworks for combining them, and AI is the engine driving that shift. But as a panel of senior practitioners made clear at the recent A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New…
Business Conduct Data in Demand as Risk Exposure Rises in a Complex World
Business conduct data is becoming more important to financial institutions as the risk of exposure to damaging incidents increases. A new survey of more than 500 C-suite risk leaders by RepRisk – a provider of data on business conduct risks faced by financial and other industries – found that four-fifths expect business conduct risk data…