Investment manager budgets for alternative data are set to increase further this year building on strong growth in the past two years, new research from leading alternative data platform Exabel and BattleFin shows.

Bloomberg and commodity prices specialist General Index have expanded their existing strategic collaboration to provide Bloomberg Terminal users with enhanced access to voluntary carbon market data.

Permutable AI has launched Market 360, an advanced market sentiment visualisation tool designed to provide hedge funds, institutional traders and other asset managers with a real-time, 360-degree view of commodity and FX markets.

Derivatives marketplace CME Group and post-trade market infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), are to expand their existing cross-margining arrangement by December 2025.

Equity Data Science, an investment process management software provider, has launched Nexus, a risk and portfolio management solution that integrates Factor Risk, Internal Research, and Performance Attribution workflows into a single interface.

Devexperts has launched DXtrade Institutional, a fully customisable single-dealer multi-asset platform offering, designed for banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and market makers looking to upgrade their frontend legacy systems.

QuantCube Technology has launched the Hydric Stress Indicator, a new tool designed to help commodity traders, financial institutions, agricultural growers, and food producers to monitor drought risks in key crop-producing regions across 20 countries.