March notebook: CFPB’s demise + data market size
After many years of being asked how big we think the alternative data market is, we thought it was about time we attempted to give an answer.
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People Moves, February 2025: NTAM, YipitData, Impact Cubed
In this month’s roundup, Impact Cubed appoints a new Chief Investment Officer, YipitData promotes internally and NTAM significantly builds out their quant team. -
How big is the alternative data market for investment managers?
Executive summary The alternative data market for investment management has grown significantly over the past few years, reaching a minimum of $2.5 billion in annual spending by 2024. Using data from Neudata’s proprietary research catalogue as a ... -
German elections: Defence, industrials and debt
On 23rd February, Germany joined a packed year of elections by heading to the polls for a federal election. Emerging victorious was Friedrich Merz’s centre-right CDU party, with far-right AfD coming in second. As a major global economy, Germany’s election results are forecasted to impact the financial sector in a variety of ways, with outsized impacts on defence, industrials and macro trends. -
London Data Summit 2025: Transformations and trends
At Neudata’s 2025 London Data Summit, data buyers and providers met to discuss the latest developments and trends within the investment data industry, from AI's efficiency gains to the growing sophistication of data products.
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London Summit 2024: Artificial intelligence
The topic of AI came up in most sessions at our London summit. We take a look at some of the key themes raised by participants. -
London Summit 2024: Year of elections
This could be the biggest year for democracy ever, YouGov’s Patrick English told a full house at our London Summit this week, kicking off a day of presentations and AltDating. -
People moves (4 Aug 2022): Viking Global Investors, Point72, Balyasny and more
In this week's round up, we report on people moves in the alternative data industry at Viking Global Investors, Point72, Balyasny Asset Management and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co. THIRD P... -
US proposes federal privacy bill
US lawmakers have introduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill that, if signed into law, would make it harder for data buyers and sellers to collect and use non-aggregated, non-anonymised data. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act aims ... -
Investment research platforms AlphaSense, Sentieo merge
Investment research platform AlphaSense has acquired competitor Sentieo. Both firms allow customers to semantically search financial documents, like SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, trade journals, news and more. Sentieo will operate under ... -
The Signal: Asian online shopping and data privacy regulation
In our April edition, we highlight the new data privacy law in India, explore the market share of shoppers in Southeast Asia, highlight the job industries with the greatest employee dispersion and discuss the latest crypto regulation in the UK. -
Ninth Circuit reaffirms right to web-scrape in hiQ-LinkedIn case
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reaffirmed that scraping publicly available data from the Internet will remain legal, the court announced in a ruling on Monday. The decision is the next step in a multi-year legal battle between hiQ Labs and... -
SEC proposes climate data disclosure rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would make it easier for investors to source public company emissions data, it announced Monday. In the proposed rule change, the agency outlined plans to require companies to include ... -
Tomorrow.io cancels SPAC deal
Tomorrow.io has cancelled its plans to become a publicly listed company, citing poor market conditions. The weather data vendor was set to merge with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Pine Technology Acquisition Corp., a deal that it init... -
Quiver Quantitative closes $2m funding round
Web-scraped data provider Quiver Quantitative has raised $2m in funding, which it intends to use to grow its platform. According to a company release, the vendor will use the funds to “accelerate the accessibility of alternative data for retail in...