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Why Good Data Still Doesn’t Get Licensed: What Breaks Trials and What Fixes Them
The alternative data industry has a conversion problem. Vendors offer trials expecting them to sell themselves. Buy-side firms accept trials with genuine intent but competing priorities. The result is a gap between a promising evaluation and a signed contract where deals routinely die, often for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of…
Prediction Markets Push for Institutional Credibility as ARK Invest Signs on with Kalshi
Prediction market operator Kalshi has signed a collaboration with ARK Invest, the latest in a series of moves designed to position prediction market data as a legitimate input for institutional investment workflows. The partnership, announced in late March, will see ARK request and monitor event contracts on the Kalshi platform, evaluating whether the probability signals…
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…
Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic…
What “Good” Mobile App Data Looks Like in an Institutional Context
Mobile app data has quietly become a core measurement layer for understanding consumer behaviour, competitive dynamics and business performance across a wide range of sectors, from streaming and retail to travel, fintech and gaming. What was once treated as a niche alternative signal is now routinely used to inform investment decisions, company analysis and thematic…
Tradeweb and Kalshi Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Institutional Access to Prediction Markets
Tradeweb, the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, and Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market, have formed a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to Kalshi’s prediction market data. The collaboration also includes plans to support institutional-grade event contract trading via Tradeweb’s platform. The announcement brings a regulated prediction…
Bloomberg Introduces Alternative Data Entitlements, Bringing Premium Datasets Deeper into Research Workflows
Bloomberg has introduced Alternative Data Entitlements within its ALTD platform on the Bloomberg Terminal, reflecting a broader institutional shift towards embedding alternative data directly into established research workflows rather than treating it as a standalone input. The new entitlement capability enables Bloomberg Terminal users to access faster, more granular alternative data analytics from specialist providers…