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Why SimCorp’s AI Alpha Paper with Axyon AI is Really a Platform Play
SimCorp and Axyon AI have jointly published a white paper examining whether AI-generated stock-ranking signals, when combined with institutional-grade portfolio optimisation, can deliver consistent active returns. The research, From AI Signals to Active Returns: A Portfolio Manager’s Guide to Capturing Consistent Alpha, analyses a 10-year backtest period from 2015 to 2025 across US All Cap…
Private Market Pricing Data Moves Beyond Transparency to Public Equity Signal
The secondary market for private company shares has grown rapidly, but pricing infrastructure has lagged behind. For most market participants, the price of a name like OpenAI or SpaceX is still whatever number comes through on a broker’s phone call, a single data point with no composite context, no observable bid-offer spread, and no audit…
Taiwan’s Retail Alpha Layer: How CMoney Is Packaging Behavioural Signals for Global Investors
Taiwan’s stock market has climbed to seventh in the world by market capitalisation – up from seventeenth just a few years ago – and now sits at roughly US$3.4 trillion. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone is among the ten largest public companies on the planet. Global fund allocations are rising in lockstep with the…
When AI Meets SEC Filings: Where LLMs Deliver, Where They Don’t, and Why the Plumbing Matters
Can LLMs reliably do what financial analysts do? Compare peers, track firms over time, and spot what’s changed? A panel at the recent A-Team Group/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference New York explored the question, and new research from Goldman Sachs and Yale suggests the answer is more nuanced than the industry assumes. The panel session…
S&P Global Bets on Agent-Native Architecture as Capital IQ Pro Consolidation Accelerates
S&P Global’s March announcement of enhancements to its Capital IQ Pro platform covers a lot of ground: new datasets across fixed income, biopharma and private markets, the integration of two AI acquisitions, and expanded generative AI capabilities. Taken individually, each is a solid incremental update. But taken together, they point to something more structurally significant,…
LSEG Rebuilds ESG Scoring From Scratch
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics that represents its most significant overhaul of ESG data methodology since the Refinitiv acquisition in 2021. The new Sustainability Ratings and Data product introduces 220 standardised indicators, a threshold-based scoring scale running from 0 (“not aware”) to 5 (“leading”),…
SOLVE Targets Fixed-Income Quote Comparability with Augmented Data Launch
SOLVE, the market data platform provider for fixed-income securities, has expanded its Quotes platform with the launch of Augmented Quotes for municipal bonds and USD-denominated fixed-rate corporate bonds, adding consistently calculated price, yield and spread datapoints to help users compare dealer quotes more effectively. The company said the enhancement will be available not only within…
Exegy and STRANDS Target Institutional Workflows for Prediction Market and Digital Asset Data
Exegy and STRANDS have announced a partnership to bring real-time prediction-market, digital-asset and smart-contract data from centralised and decentralised venues into Exegy’s Axiom consolidated feed service, with initial content scheduled for delivery in May 2026. The announcement extends Exegy’s market-data offering into a broader set of emerging asset classes and data types, including prediction markets,…
Corastone Adds Institutional Backers as Private Markets Look to Standardise Data and Workflow Infrastructure
Corastone has added Fidelity Investments, Future Standard and Hamilton Lane as investors in its private-markets platform, expanding the group of institutions backing the company. The announcement follows the platform’s launch in November 2025 and reflects growing industry interest in technology designed to support the increasingly complex data and operational requirements of private-market activity. While the…
Why Data Governance Is Becoming Critical to the Modern Market Data Stack
The rapid expansion of alternative and specialised market datasets is transforming how financial institutions source, analyse and operationalise information. Alongside traditional market data feeds from exchanges and major vendors, firms now consume a growing array of niche datasets supporting quantitative research, AI workflows and investment decision-making. This surge in data consumption is creating new operational…