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Scraping at Scale: Where AI Actually Helps, and Where It Doesn’t Yet
“AI web scraping that doesn’t break” was the title given to a fireside chat at the recent A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference London – a phrasing that is, on its own terms, aspirational. Pipelines that self-maintain through site changes, schema drift and content shifts remain a destination rather than a current reality, and the session…
Where is the Edge When Everyone Has the Same Alt Data?
Has the institutional alternative data market reached a phase in which the easy sources of edge have closed? Datasets that once generated standalone alpha are widely distributed, the AI tooling layered on top of them is increasingly commoditised, and the differentiator has migrated to a less glamorous middle ground: validation, transformation, kill criteria, and the…
LexisNexis Q&A: Ensuring Data Trust, From News to Governance
Since the 1970s, LexisNexis has been providing a variety of data services to financial institutions. Data Management Insight spoke to Danielle McCormick, vice president of product, Nexis Solutions – LexisNexis, to discuss how financial institutions are approaching AI, trusted data and the future of enterprise intelligence. Data Management Insight: Hello Danielle, when were LexisNexis’ data…
Is the Most Expensive Failure Mode in Alt Data on the User Side?
Asked at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, London last week which datasets his firm had ever taken out of production, one panellist paused, considered the question, and admitted he could not think of a single one. The answer was offered without defensiveness, as a genuine reflection. It also turned out to be one of…
From Quiet Practice to Explicit Disclosure: How the Fed’s Alt-Data Use is Reshaping the Macro Stack
At the October 2025 FOMC press conference, during the federal government shutdown that had interrupted the flow of official statistics, Chair Jerome Powell did something the Federal Reserve has rarely done in public: he cited the alternative datasets from PriceStats, Adobe and ADP that the central bank was leaning on. For many observers of the…
Alternative Data Grows Up: ADC London 2026 Turns to Operational Reality
For most of the past decade, alternative data conferences have asked the same underlying question in slightly different language: does this stuff actually produce alpha? The answer, settled some time ago for institutional buyers willing to do the work, has shifted the conversation. The questions on the agenda for the London edition of the Eagle…
When Everyone Has LLMs, Who do Quants Still Hire?
The democratisation of alternative data has been a recurring theme at industry conferences for several years. The arrival of capable large language models has accelerated it. Datasets that once required specialist teams to ingest and structure can now be parsed by anyone with a reasonable prompt; signals that once took weeks to extract can be…
The Case for Multimodal Macro: Toward a New Standard for Economic Measurement
Institutional investors still anchor macro trading decisions to government economic releases. But the data infrastructure behind those releases is eroding. For example, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which runs the surveys underpinning some of the most market-moving numbers in the world, has seen the response rate on its Job-openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS survey)…
Synthetic Data’s Real Value Isn’t Alpha – It’s Confidence
The alternative data industry has largely settled the question of whether synthetic data has a place in institutional workflows. The harder question – and the one that dominated a lively panel discussion at the A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New York – is where exactly that place is, and how far practitioners should trust…
Alt Data’s New Competitive Edge: From Discovery to Synthesis
Has the alternative data industry crossed a maturity threshold? The competitive advantage has migrated from simply having access to novel datasets to building superior frameworks for combining them, and AI is the engine driving that shift. But as a panel of senior practitioners made clear at the recent A-Team/Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference in New…