Alternative Data Podcasts

In this episode, Jessica Margolies and Tarik Shah, both special counsels at Schulte Roth & Zabel, joined us to provide a comprehensive overview of current compliance trends, regulatory developments, and the impact of generative AI on legal and compliance practices in 2024.

In this episode, Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn of Schulte Roth & Zabel review the most prominent legal themes from 2023 and provide some thoughts on what to expect in 2024. In 2023, we saw the regulatory demand placed on consumers of alternative data increase as rapidly as the technology itself, as the SEC continued its scrutiny on the risk of alternative data containing material non-public information and stressed the need for firms to adopt and consistently apply robust due diligence policies and procedures.

In this episode, Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing & Advisory at Eagle Alpha, speaks with Felipe Torres about his time working in the alternative data world, the data from G2 Data, and the use of firmographic data for investors.

In this episode, Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing & Advisory at Eagle Alpha, speaks with Ed Lavery about his rise in alternative data, the data from Placer.ai, and their new role with Bloomberg.

In this episode, Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing and Advisory speaks with Max Warren, Team Director, Financial Institutions Sales. Max discusses why it is important to understand the quality of Sensor Tower’s panel and what is different from peers. As App data can be large Max highlights how their analyst team can help clients understand the nuances of using app data. Max also gives some examples of how the data can be used and discusses how the Pathmatics data can be a differentiator.

On this episode of Eagle Alpha’s Profiting From Data Podcast, host Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing and Strategy at Eagle Alpha, sits down with Garrett DeSimone, PhD and Head of Quant Research at OptionMetrics. We hear from Garrett on his background and transition from academia to OptionMetrics which is a leading data vendor covering the options market with end of day pricing and volumes back to 1996. The company also provides analytics on option market “greeks” and “option surfaces” that institutional investors can use to gain alpha opportunities or to hedge positions.

In this episode, Dallán Ryan, Content & Advisory Lead, Data Strategy was joined by Ben Kozinn from Schulte Roth & Zabel, Kjartan Slette from Unacast, and Jason Sarfati from Gravy Analytics to discuss recent geolocation data collection and sharing developments. The panel discussed data collection best practices and data processing vendors are undertaking, sensitive locations, the FTC case with Kochava, and the likelihood of a US federal privacy law coming into effect any time soon.

In this episode, Gary Collier and James Munro of Man Group, one of the leading multi-asset investment groups globally, discuss the ideation and development of ArcticDB, an embedded, columnar datastore optimized for time-series data.

In this episode, Gary Collier and James Munro of Man Group, one of the leading multi-asset investment groups globally, discuss the ideation and development of ArcticDB, an embedded, columnar datastore optimized for time-series data.

This episode features an interview with Femi Opeodu, Head of Data Product and Distribution at CLS Group. Femi began his data journey while at Bloomberg, focusing on growing the commodity side of the business across the globe. His time at Bloomberg helped him realize that if the global economy can be likened to the human body, then foreign exchange is the blood in circulation. Having earned his stripes experiencing how effective alternative data can be for commodities, Femi now works with CLS, a data vendor providing unique and relevant alternative data on the FX market since 2002. On this episode, Femi talks about historic events, such as the fall of Herstatt Bank, that acted as a backdrop for the formation of CLS, the focus on capturing flow, volume, and pricing data for the buyer market, and the importance of focusing on executed trades rather than quotes in FX trading data. He also discusses trends and flows in the FX market and what’s coming down the line for CLS including the expansion of available currencies and increasing frequency of data for clients. Please enjoy this dialogue between Femi and your host, Niall Hurley.