Confidence levels among hedge fund managers are at their highest levels in recent years amid strong industry performance and capital inflows, according to a new report from the Alternative Investment Management Association. Among the 300 hedge fun...

Apple unveiled new privacy features at its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, highlighting several changes it will make this fall to limit data collection within its operating system. Chief among the changes is a new service — called...

SIGTech, a quant trading platform, is establishing a new office in New York as it looks to expand its reach among US asset managers. The service provider, which already counts AllianceBernstein, Brevan Howard, GAM and MasterLink among its clients,...

FiscalNote, a data provider that provides predictive analytics on legislative and regulatory actions, has announced two acquisitions that expand its global data offering. The two firms are Fireside, a Washington, DC-based provider of constituent m...

IHS Markit is planning to sell subsidiary businesses that supply pricing data for certain commodities ahead of its merger with S&P Global. The two firms announced last week that IHS Markit would divest from its Oil Price Information Services (...

The following article was contributed by Stacey Brandenburg, shareholder, and Marc Zwillinger, founder and managing member at ZwillGen PLLC. We live in an information-driven society. Data fuels our decision-making, direction, and development, and...

SimilarWeb filed a prospectus for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission late last week. The clickstream data provider hasn’t offered a valuation or determined the number of shares it will offer yet, but market p...

The following article was contributed by Kelly Koscuiszka, partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Web scraping – the automated collection of data on the internet – is increasingly used in information gathering including by “traditional” research...

Alternative data vendors have seen a rush of success in fundraising this month, with several providers achieving multi-billion-dollar valuations as a result of recent funding rounds. PatSnap, which provides data on global intellectual property, re...

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...