App Annie: Intel from the Desk of our Head of Research
Responding to the latest SEC enforcement action against App Annie, Neudata's head of research Daryl Smith outlines the implications for the alternative data industry.
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Inside the App Annie enforcement action – 6 lessons learned
On Tuesday, the SEC agreed to settle securities fraud charges with App Annie for engaging in deceptive practices and making material misrepresentations about how its alternative data was derived between 2014 and 2018. -
Natural Language Processing: A birds-eye view
Technical and theoretical advancements over the past two decades, coupled with open-source software, has fueled an explosion of sentiment data providers. In this report, we provide a lay of the land, focusing on the three key types of sentiment vendors based on underlying source - news content, social media, and investor communications. Within each category, we highlight use cases, trends, and prominent players. -
How do I assess overall risk in a China-based vendor?
China is very much in focus again this month as buyers react to the recent enforcement activity of the Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. -
People moves (9 Sept ‘21): Ashler Capital, Yewno, Fidelity and more
Submit your promotions, job changes and open roles to press@neudata.co for inclusion in next week's newsletter. -
Quandl rebrands to Nasdaq Data Link
The rebranding comes three years after the alternative data marketplace was purchased by Nasdaq. -
How do ESG considerations impact corporate bonds?
We summarize a study that investigated the impact of ESG screening on fixed income asset pricing, and also explored whether ESG data offers investors an information advantage. -
Clickstream data revisited
Exactly one year since we analysed the state of the market, we revisit the clickstream data landscape. We breakdown the vendor ecosystem by output granularity, data collection method, and client uptake. -
ESG data for fixed income securities (Part I)
Most ESG research nowadays focuses on equities, so it has been less clear on how ESG considerations can be applied to fixed income investments. Since 1Q21, Neudata have received numerous requests for ESG data for fixed income instruments, from sovereign bonds, to municipal bond, securitized debt, private debt, senior loans, and large syndicated leveraged loans. We publish this two-part Intelligence report in response to this influx of investor interest. -
Customer profiling is the future of alternative data
The widespread practice of forming customer profiles represents an enormous potential market for alternative data, but also presents new compliance challenges deeply rooted in privacy that may hinder conventional buysiders and corporates alike.