EU regulators have given the green light to S&P Global to move forward with its purchase of IHS Markit. The European Commission announced on Friday that it had granted the two businesses a conditional Phase 1 approval for the US $44bn merger. ...

The following article was contributed by Stacey Brandenburg, shareholder, and Marc Zwillinger, founder and managing member at ZwillGen PLLC. The Securities and Exchange Commission identified “alternative data” as an examination priority beginning ...

The following article was contributed by You Yunting, partner and attorney-at-law, and Ciel Gao, paralegal, at DeBund Law Offices. China’s legal system for dealing with data security and personal information protection standards has been establis...

Hedge fund managers are continuing to stay positive about their firms’ economic prospects heading into the final quarter of the year, according to a new report from the Alternative Investment Management Association. The increased confidence was fe...

NielsenIQ has announced that it will acquire e-receipt data provider Rakuten Intelligence for an undisclosed sum. The two firms have had worked together for several years — since October 2018, NielsenIQ has leveraged Rakuten’s Slice e-receipt data...

In this week's round up, we report on people moves in the alternative data industry at RIWI, CoStar, Semrush and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.   RIWI CONTINUES MGMT SHUFFLE, LAUNCHES NEW PRO...

Data giant IHS Markit has formed a partnership with FinTech Studios, which will allow the vendor to provide additional data to IHS’s thinkFolio investment management platform. The relationship will help bolster thinkFolio’s product, which provides...

FiscalNote, a data vendor that provides predictive analytics on legislative and regulatory actions, has acquired geopolitical risk signal provider Predata. The transaction is the latest in a series of acquisitions from FiscalNote, which has comple...

News Corp has agreed to buy three commodity pricing data businesses from IHS Markit, the sale of which were seen as an important regulatory prerequisite to complete a USD 44bn merger between IHS and S&P Global. In a joint statement, IHS and S&...

The following article was contributed by You Yunting, attorney-at-law, and Gao Tianyi, paralegal, at DeBund Law Offices. Data buyers often focus on several potential legal concerns in web-scraped data, particularly relating to the Computer Fraud a...