On Thursday, April 15th, 2021 we held a workshop deep-dive following the success of our February Hackathon event in February where teams of data hackers competed against each other using a mix of datasets provided by Eagle Alpha data partners.
This report highlights the major US and European consumer transaction, merchant-level data vendors. The report provides important details such as data sources, panel information, history, comments on any biases in the data, coverage, and guidelines on pricing.
In this month’s legal workshop, Ronan Crosson, Director, Data Strategy and Analytics, was joined by Ben Kozinn of Lowenstein Sandler and Marissa Dong of Jun he Law Offices to discuss legal developments in China and how it affects the global alternative data landscape.
In this paper Jianming Sun, Data Sourcing & Partnerships for Eagle Alpha outlines the most popular datasets for China. The datasets that are explored are listed below.
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.
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.
This case study deck outlines alternative datasets that can be used by macroeconomic investors and funds.
The workshop was split into two topics: Trade data and jet tracking data. The workshop also had some brief comments on the class action lawsuit against Yodlee.
Consumer transaction data is one of the most popular and widely deployed types of alternative data by investment managers. The data is also used extensively by corporates with exposure to the retail segment of the economy.
Back in January of this year a letter from US lawmakers called for an investigation by the FTC into Yodlee and its parent Envestnet “to determine whether the company’s sale of sensitive financial transaction data from tens of millions of Americans violates the FTC Act”.
On Thursday, September 17th, 2020 we held a workshop on Consumer Transaction data.
