Asset managers are turning to alternative data sources in the wake of China’s coronavirus outbreak in order to identify the impact  the epidemic will have on their investments in the region. The human toll of the virus is still hard to fully quant...

In this month’s roundup, AlphaSense hires to its enterprise team, Crunchbase appoints a senior VP of sales, and Citadel hires a new head of equities engineering.

On 18th March, Sensor Tower announced that they acquired video game intelligence platform Video Game Insights (VGI). The merger will allow the longtime app data provider to expand its coverage of gaming analytics into PC and console data. 

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.

In this month’s roundup, Impact Cubed appoints a new Chief Investment Officer, YipitData promotes internally and NTAM significantly builds out their quant team.

In this month’s roundup, JPMorgan hires a new Executive Director of Vendor Management, BNamericas promotes a new CEO, and FIS appoints to its Enterprise Data and AI team.

In a new update, Google has reportedly disrupted some SEO tools’ ability to rank searches.

In this month's roundup, Spire announces a new CEO, WorldQuant hires a new AVP of Data Strategy, and Chainalysis promotes their co-founder.

Data buyers at our summit in New York showed interest in human capital insights, travel intent data, advertising spend and patents. 

In this month's roundup, Balyasny's new Head of Quantitative Research starts his role, S&P Global announces a new leadership team, and TraditionData looks to bolster its coverage of multiple asset classes.