On June 16th, we hosted a legal and compliance workshop in collaboration with our partners Shulte Roth & Zabel. Hannah Thibideau, Special Counsel at the firm, joined us to discuss the new Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Program Rule.
Compliance is not limited to production environments. Trial and test systems can introduce serious legal and reputational risks if not handled with equal care.
Recent developments suggest LinkedIn has intensified its efforts to block web scrapers, a move that could be affecting human capital data vendors who rely on this source.
Macro funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) have been rapidly evolving, adapting to changes in financial markets, and leveraging new sources of information to gain a competitive edge.
Financial flow data plays a critical role in understanding how capital moves through the financial markets. Specifically, it provides valuable insight into the behavior and preferences of investors.
On May 20th, we held a timely webinar on global fund flow trends. Moderated by Eagle Alpha's Head of Data Sourcing Brendan Furlong, the session explored the impact of “Liberation Day” (April 2, 2025) on market dynamics.
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
Employment data helps track changes in workforce supply and demand faster than traditional government reports, which often lag behind real-world trends. Most employment datasets are sourced from public information such as corporate websites, company filings, job boards, and professional platforms.
On April 22nd, we held a research workshop on factor models and earnings filings with the specific look into how systematic firms can adopt these methods. We were joined by Jacob Ayres-Thomson, CEO and Founder of 3AI, and Pranav Ghai, CEO and Co-Founder of Calcbench.
NLP-as-a-Service (NLPaaS) refers to cloud-based platforms that provide natural language processing capabilities through APIs and SDKs, and platform interface. This allows users to integrate language understanding into applications without building and training NLP models from scratch.
Alternative datasets can be used to analyze trade patterns, track the movement of goods and services across borders, and measure the economic impact of trade policies and agreements.
How a mid-size european SaaS platform turned a simple inquiry into a multi-million dollar data revenue stream in 6 months
