Investors are looking for alternative data that can help assess the debt market. Alternative data such as consumer transaction data, B2B invoice data, loan data, and web traffic data could all be applied to credit markets.
Many alternative datasets can be applied to the credit markets as they would be applied to the equity market. For example:
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Facteus is a unique dataset that includes daily transactions from millions of active consumer payment cards (processed daily) including, active personal debit cards and alternative debit cards like General Purpose Reloadable (GPR), gift and reward prepaid cards.
Earnest Research covers 2,500+ TMT companies and thousands of consumer merchants across multiple verticals such as Grocers, Apparel, Travel, Leisure, General Merchandise, and many more.
Advan processes over 5 billion daily foot traffic measurements across over 1 million geofenced locations in the US and Europe with time-series data ranging back to 2015.
Fundamental funds at the early stages of their alternative data journey should consider starting with data providers who offer data that can be applied across sectors and/or provide tools and platforms.
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
This article details how the firm evolved an alternative data and technology strategy that began in 2016. The company sees data and technology as key to generating alpha and sustaining a competitive advantage over peers. All the information gathered for the article comes from public sources.
Facteus is a leading consumer transaction dataset that includes daily transactions from millions of active consumer payment cards including active personal debit cards and alternative debit cards like General Purpose Reloadable (GPR), gift and reward prepaid cards.
Pricing data is widely used by investors as the data has broad macro and equity applications. Pricing data is a particularly useful input into fundamental analysis of companies, particularly in consumer-related markets.
