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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…
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,…
SimCorp Opens Axioma Factor Research Library to Quant Investors
SimCorp has introduced the Axioma Factor Library Suite, giving quantitative investors access to a broad set of proprietary equity and macro factors derived from the research underpinning its Axioma risk models. The dataset is aimed at hedge funds, systematic investors and asset managers seeking to expand the signal universe available for portfolio construction and strategy…
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…
Standard Chartered and LSEG Partner for Enterprise Data and Analytics Consolidation
LSEG has entered into a multi-year agreement with Standard Chartered to provide the bank with enterprise-scale access to multi-asset class data, news, and analytics. The collaboration focuses on delivering a unified data environment with consistent rights management across the organisation’s global footprint. The agreement is designed to enhance Standard Chartered’s operating model by consolidating market…
LSEG and Bank of America Target AI-ready, Governed Data Integration in Multi-Year Partnership
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Bank of America have agreed a multi-year strategic partnership centred on embedding governed, AI-ready data and analytics directly into the bank’s core workflows. Rather than a distribution agreement focused on access, the collaboration reflects a broader architectural shift: integrating unified, rights-cleared content, analytics and risk intelligence across advisory, trading,…
Deutsche Börse Group to Acquire Remaining 20% Stake in ISS STOXX
Deutsche Börse Group has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining 20% minority stake in ISS STOXX from the global investor General Atlantic. This transaction marks the final step in a strategic partnership that began with the acquisition of Axioma in 2019 and the subsequent integration of ISS’s ESG solutions with the STOXX index business…
Barclays Deepens Market Data Strategy with Multiyear FactSet Agreement
Barclays has agreed a multiyear strategic collaboration with FactSet that marks a shift in how the bank is approaching market data and analytics infrastructure as part of a broader enterprise-level data strategy. The arrangement will see Barclays integrate a broad suite of FactSet products, data and technology solutions into its workflows to support data-driven decision-making…
LSEG and Citi Announce Multi-Year Strategic Data and Analytics Partnership
LSEG and Citi have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy LSEG’s data, analytics, and workflow solutions at an enterprise scale. This agreement supports Citi’s modernisation efforts by consolidating data access and standardising governance across front-to-back workflows, including markets, investment banking, wealth, trading, and compliance. The initiative aims to enhance efficiency and ensure consistent data-driven…