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Facteus Expands Data Coverage with a Focus on Signal Continuity
As alternative data becomes more deeply embedded in investment research and quantitative models, the quality of a dataset is increasingly about more than its size. Coverage and granularity remain important, but so too does the ability to maintain a consistent, representative signal as underlying data sources and panels evolve. That challenge is central to the…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…
S&P Global Integrates with Intelligence Data into Capital IQ Pro Platform
S&P Global has begun integrating data assets from its recent acquisition of With Intelligence into its flagship S&P Capital IQ Pro platform. The initial rollout introduces investor allocation and commitment data, fund performance records, fund-level screening across private market asset classes, and editorial commentary from ‘The Deal’. This integration represents the first concrete product output…
Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks
Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…
Bloomberg Acquisition of Canoe Marks ‘Major’ Step in Private Markets for Data Behemoth
Bloomberg is to acquire private market data automation specialist Canoe Intelligence as the financial data behemoth seeks to expand its offerings in the booming market for alternatives data. In what the company says is one of the most significant deals in its history, Bloomberg has characterised the acquisition as the “latest step” in a multi-year…
Europe’s Official EBBO Arrives in September: 130 Feeds, One Consolidated Tape
ESMA has officially authorised EuroCTP B.V. to operate Europe’s first consolidated tape provider (CTP) for shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). With a go-live date set for 14 September – just ahead of ESMA’s 30 September operational deadline – European equity markets will, for the first time, have an officially designated consolidated reference price. Operating under…
Trading Up: Helping Our Youngsters Get What We Do
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the…
How ExtractAlpha Builds Trust in the Age of AI Signals
When a data provider sells raw data, the buyer can inspect what they are getting. When a provider sells a signal – a ranking, a score, a forecast of forward returns – the buyer is being asked to trust a research process they cannot necessarily see. That asymmetry sits at the centre of the systematic…
BMLL and SIGMA AI Partner to Benchmark Live Market Flow Against Historical Order Book Data
BMLL and SIGMA AI have announced a partnership combining BMLL’s historical Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data with SIGMA’s “Quant in the Cloud” streaming platform, producing an analytics layer that scores live market flow against historical benchmarks. The stated use cases are real-time anomaly detection, market regime classification and execution benchmarking, with anticipated…
S&P Global Launches Adaptive Retrieval as Agentic Workflows Reshape Data Access
S&P Global has launched Adaptive Retrieval, a service allowing customer AI agents and large language models to access and assemble licensed S&P Global data through natural language queries. It sits alongside the existing Deterministic Retrieval method, and both are now offered through a single interface, the S&P Global AI Data Portal. Deterministic Retrieval, built on…