The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has once again included alternative data in its list of examination priorities, signalling that the agency will continue closely watching how funds creat...

Capitalising on a strong supply of available fundraising capital, data vendors are opting to go public via special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, in increasing numbers. Over the last four weeks, auto data company Otonomo and satellite da...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is granting its enforcement staff more power to launch investigations, restoring a tool that allows about 36 senior officials in the regulatory agency to subpoena companies and individuals for records or test...

While quantitative managers have been using alternative sources of data for as long as quant investing has been around, fundamental investors have only started exploring the space in a systematic way in the last 5-10 years. On Thursday, Neudata br...

The incoming Biden administration has nominated former financial regulator Gary Gensler to run the US Securities and Exchange Commission as the regulatory body looks to regulate institutional alternative data usage more stringently. Gensler, a for...

Health insurance company UnitedHealth Group has agreed to buy Change Healthcare for USD 7.84bn, signalling an expansion of its data collection and healthcare technology businesses. The offerings from Change Healthcare — which operates a US clearin...

FiscalNote, a political- and regulatory risk-focused data provider, has acquired FactSquared, an audio transcription analysis firm. The announcement comes on the heels of news that FiscalNote raised USD 160m from investors in December to expand in...

The second day of Neudata’s Winter Summit explored the unique data use cases that investors are exploring, including new ways of working with natural language processing technology and how investors are still finding alpha in transactional data. O...

S&P Global announced Monday that it would acquire IHS Markit for USD 44bn, in an all-stock deal that would combine two of the largest data providers on Wall Street. The deal would marry S&P’s expertise in providing country- and company-lev...

Commercial real estate data giant CoStar Group has agreed to buy Homesnap, representing its first major step toward collecting data on the residential real estate market. CoStar will pay USD 250m in cash for the app and technology provider, accord...