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.

After a tumultuous and unprecedented election season, Americans went to the polls and chose Donald J. Trump as their 47th president. Trump’s administration is predicted to usher in drastic changes in public and economic policy compared to Biden’s administration. Given these proposed changes, what does a second Trump presidency mean for the alternative data market? 

YipitData has filed a lawsuit against two of its former employees, claiming that the employees misappropriated confidential trade secrets and sensitive information for their own personal gain, as well as the gain of direct competitor M Science.

Half of the audience at our 2024 San Francisco Data Summit was composed of private equity data buyers, while the other half included more typical buyers in the alternative data space, like quant, discretionary and multi-strategy firms. Below, we summarise the vendors that these buyers were most interested in meeting during the summit, including vendors providing human capital, ad spend and agricultural data.

Included in this month’s roundup, Mahindra’s head of data joins asset management subsidiary Teqo and CME poaches fixed income head from ABN Amro.

The deal represents inevitable consolidation in the sector and is raising concerns across the sector about price hikes.

The deal will expand its offering through the addition of app store, app engagement and mobile SDK data.

The deal reflects how investments in private assets are becoming more data-driven, in line with shifts in other asset classes.

In this month’s roundup, Taula Capital adds to its data team, B Capital invests in AI and Veson Nautical looks to integrate its acquisitions.

Data buyers at our summit in New York showed interest in receipts, clickstream, weather and social media, as well as perennial favourite aiLiftoff’s earnings forecasts.