Predata, a predictive analytics company for anticipating geopolitical risk, has released a new suite of signals for US equities. The signals quantify online attention and concern to each of the eleven S&P equity sectors, as well as constituent companies and
Refinitiv has made a strategic investment in alternative data platform and marketplace BattleFin forming a partnership which will provide customers with access to alternative datasets across its data platforms, including quantitative data management platform QA Direct in the Cloud. Quants
When reviewing middle-office outsourcing proposals, this comment is not uncommon. However, the inclination to evaluate outsourcing by extrapolating in-house operating budgets and comparing them to outsourcing proposals is an insufficient method for determining the total value of a proposed outsourcing
Confluence is teaming with ICE Data Services to help asset managers meet their compliance obligations with respect to SEC Modernization and other regulatory reporting requirements. With the implementation of SEC Modernization, the increased frequency and depth of reporting required by
Brightway Asset Management Limited (Brightway), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of China Minmetals Corporation (CMC), principally engaged in asset management, has appointed SS&C GlobeOp as its fund administrator. Brightway says the selection of SS&C GlobeOp was based on the
Estera, a leading global provider of funds, corporate and trust services, has appointed Ethan Levner as Group Head of Funds, with overall responsibility for funds operations across the 11 jurisdictions the business operates in. Estera is a specialist in fund
The Market’s Compass (TMC), a provider of technical research and consulting services, is making its suite of ETF studies available to institutional investors, registered investment advisers, hedge funds and individual investors. “A quantitative model like this has never been seen
Opus Fund Services has officially launched its European fund administration business based in Dublin, Ireland having secured authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland under the Investment Intermediaries Act. Launched in 2006, the Opus proprietary based technology has, to date,
Neptune Networks (Neptune) has launched a new composite product, produced in collaboration with CME Group, to provide clients access to a ‘higher quality representation’ of the global bond market. This latest addition to Neptune, a consortium of sell-side banks that
PanXchange, an OTC exchange and price discovery platform for physical commodities, is to distribute its proprietary pricing data for hydraulic fracturing proppants, better known as frac sand, through Quandl, a provider of financial and alternative data for financial professionals. PanXchange
