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Upcoming Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research
Date: 20 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining…
Upcoming Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data
Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are…
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…
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…
SEC Approves Cost-Saving Measures for the Consolidated Audit Trail
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an amendment to the National Market System Plan to implement various cost-saving measures for the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). This decision includes exemptive relief from specific requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, aiming to reduce the financial burden of the CAT while maintaining its core…
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,…
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,…
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…