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EvaluateLocate Launches Kilometre-Level Model to Turn Local Economies into Investment Signals
UK geospatial intelligence company EvaluateLocate has launched Geospatial Predictor 2 (GSP-2), a predictive model designed to provide a continuously updated view of economic activity across the UK at one-kilometre resolution, as the company looks to expand its technology into the institutional investment market. The model produces current estimates and forecasts for more than 130 economic,…
Beyond Consumer Sentiment: Can The Real Feel Turn Human Emotion into Alternative Data?
Could the way people feel provide an early indication of changes in consumer behaviour and financial markets? That’s the proposition being explored by The Real Feel, a US-based data company collecting daily information on Americans’ emotional states to develop a new source of alternative data for investment research. Founded by former Reuters executive Lisa Hu,…
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search…
Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence
Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised…
Are Prediction Markets Becoming Data Sources Before They Become Trading Venues?
Prediction markets have become increasingly visible in financial markets over the past two years, fuelled by rapid growth in platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket and their prominence around elections, monetary policy and geopolitical events. For institutional investors, however, their most immediate value may lie less in trading the contracts themselves than in the stream…
Bloomberg Enterprise MCP Brings Market Data into the Agentic AI Workflow
Bloomberg has launched an enterprise AI access layer for its Data License Plus (DL+) offering, giving clients’ AI agents a standardised way to discover, interpret and retrieve licensed Bloomberg data across more than 100 million securities and over 50,000 fields. Bloomberg Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) combines the data with metadata, semantic context and entity…
BMLL and Simudyne Bring Reactive AI Simulation to Trading and Market Structure
BMLL and Simudyne have partnered to combine granular historical order book data with generative AI and agent-based simulation, creating simulated markets that can respond dynamically to trading activity rather than simply replaying historical events. The collaboration brings BMLL’s harmonised Level 2 and Level 3 historical data into Simudyne’s Pulse intraday market simulator. Simudyne is using…
Why Agentic AI Is Shifting Attention Back to the Data Layer
The rapid improvement of large language models is changing the way financial institutions approach agentic AI. Model capability remains important, alongside the practical challenges of connecting AI to the right data, providing sufficient context, embedding agents into investment workflows and controlling what they can access and do. These issues featured prominently during a panel discussion…
FactSet Pushes Deeper into Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure with BCC Group Acquisition
FactSet’s acquisition of BCC Group International (bccg) brings the data and analytics provider further into the infrastructure layer underpinning institutional market data, as financial firms reassess architectures built around legacy distribution platforms. Announced last week, the deal brings bccg’s ONE Platform into FactSet’s Real-Time Solution Suite, combining FactSet’s real-time, historical and reference data capabilities with…
Can Alternative Data Close the Credit Risk Visibility Gap?
Credit risk has traditionally been monitored through a familiar collection of fundamentals, ratings and market prices. But as private and public credit markets become more interconnected, investors are looking across a much wider range of data for signs that a borrower – or an entire sector – may be running into trouble. That search for…