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Over 600 attendees joined us for the first day of the Neudata Winter Summit, which explored this year’s key themes for alt data and our expectations for 2021. Neudata’s founder and CEO Rado Lipuš kicked off our morning session, welcoming attendees...
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S&P to acquire IHS Markit for USD 44bn
S&P Global announced Monday that it would acquire IHS Markit for USD 44bn, in an all-stock deal that would combine two of the largest data providers on Wall Street. The deal would marry S&P’s expertise in providing country- and company-lev... -
CoStar to buy residential real estate data platform
Commercial real estate data giant CoStar Group has agreed to buy Homesnap, representing its first major step toward collecting data on the residential real estate market. CoStar will pay USD 250m in cash for the app and technology provider, accord... -
Envestnet, Yodlee file dismissal request in class action lawsuit
Envestnet and its subsidiary Yodlee have asked a federal magistrate judge in California to dismiss a proposed class action suit, which alleges that the firm failed to protect the consumer data it collected, and that it shared and sold data in unen... -
Quantopian shuts its doors, co-founders join Robinhood
Quantopian, a crowd-sourced fintech platform, is shutting its doors as its co-founders announce they will join retail trading platform Robinhood. The Quantopian community — in which amateur investors could create investment algorithms that could b... -
SEC reportedly scraps changes to 13-F filings
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly backed down from its proposal to reform 13F filing requirements, which would have reduced the number of funds required to report their equity holdings each quarter. On Tuesday, Bloomberg rep... -
FactSet to acquire TruValue Labs
FactSet has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ESG data provider TruValue Labs, the companies announced on Tuesday. TruValue, which was founded in 2013, applies natural language procession (NLP) to over 100,000 unstructured text source... -
CausaLens adds new causality capabilities to platform
CausaLens, a provider of signal testing technology, has released an update to its platform to incorporate more robust cause-and-effect relationship mapping. The three-year-old company uses proprietary automated machine learning (AutoML) to build p... -
Investors turn to data to predict impact of second wave, civil unrest
A combination of fears around a second coronavirus wave, civil unrest and uncertain macroeconomic policy decisions drove US stocks lower last week, but the signs were there according to several vendors who noticed unusual patterns in their data le...