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YipitData Locks in Apptopia as Exclusive Mobile Data Provider, Signalling Supply Chain Consolidation
Apptopia has announced a partnership with YipitData under which Apptopia will serve as YipitData’s exclusive provider of mobile app data, powering several of the alternative data platform’s consumer-facing research products for buy-side clients including hedge funds and asset managers. The deal formalises what appears to have been a deepening relationship between the two firms. In…
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…
Private Market Pricing Data Moves Beyond Transparency to Public Equity Signal
The secondary market for private company shares has grown rapidly, but pricing infrastructure has lagged behind. For most market participants, the price of a name like OpenAI or SpaceX is still whatever number comes through on a broker’s phone call, a single data point with no composite context, no observable bid-offer spread, and no audit…
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…
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,…
LSEG Rebuilds ESG Scoring From Scratch
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics that represents its most significant overhaul of ESG data methodology since the Refinitiv acquisition in 2021. The new Sustainability Ratings and Data product introduces 220 standardised indicators, a threshold-based scoring scale running from 0 (“not aware”) to 5 (“leading”),…
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…