We have seen a significant drive for competition and innovation in the financial system. PSD2 is leading to an evolution of strong customer authentication and digital identity management and control where classic banks no longer own the end-to-end value chain.
Earlier this year, both Citi and J.P. Morgan published reports on asset managers innovating their investment processes with alternative data sources.
hiQ Labs is a tech startup that collects public LinkedIn profiles and sells analytics to companies wishing to improve management of their workforces (e.g. reduce turnover, increase organizational agility).
Crawled data is one of the most widely used categories of alternative data. It is relatively inexpensive to collect and can often provide a strong signal for consumer related companies.
Eagle Alpha analysts have spent over three years finding the best way to use online search data to predict economic indicators. Eagle Alpha has devised its own proprietary methodology that leverages all relevant academic research, as well as accepted best practices in the field.
Google Trends is a public web facility based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search volume over time across various regions of the world.
On March 23rd 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing the launch of Ubisoft’s (UBI:FP) flagship game for the quarter, Ghost Recon Wildlands. The game significantly underperformed against last year’s major launch, the Division, on key online metrics.
Eagle Alpha Web Queries is a query based tool that enables clients to obtain analytics on over 90 million web sources including: blogs, image and video sites, forums, review sites, social media and news sites. It is especially useful when analyzing consumer reactions to new releases.
Google Trends is a public web facility based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search-volume over time across various regions of the world.
The aim of this project was to build revenue indicators for US retailers using online search activity as a barometer of future company sales.
On April 5th 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8. We used Web Queries/Twitter, search data and online pricing to give a read on initial reaction to the product, and some early indication on likely success.
Google Trends is a public web facility based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search volume over time across various regions of the world.
