Profiting From Data

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 informat...

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 ex...

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 provider for historical option price data, tools and analytics. On this episode...

We were 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 e...

Dallán Ryan, Data Strategy Content and Advisory Lead was joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from Schulte Roth & Zabel to review the first six months of this year and the most prominent events including ChatGPT compliance, DTCC and data degradation, SEC exams, and web scraping updates.

On 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.

On this episode, New York law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel and web data provider Sequentum joined to discuss the impact new technologies have had on improving data compliance, where future technology advancements can help organizations most in the compliance process, and working together to develop a more robust understanding of both buyer and vendor perspective in the data compliance process.

This episode features an interview with Jonathan Chin, Co-Founder and Head of Data and Growth Strategy at Facteus.

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 str...

Once a quarter, Eagle Alpha’s director of data strategy and analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha’s client-only monthly legal workshops. In this episode, Peter and Ben reflect on the year gone by and highlight the most prominent topics for the alternative data community, such as the...

Once a quarter, Eagle Alpha’s director of data strategy and analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha’s client-only monthly legal workshops. In this episode, Peter and Ben discuss this quarter’s most pertinent topic in the alternative data industry surrounding mobile app data provider,...

Today’s episode features an interview with Jonathan Kay, Founder, and CEO of Apptopia - a global leader in mobile market intelligence. Jonathan founded Apptopia in 2011 as a competitive intelligence tool for companies with few avenues to digitally benchmark themselves against peers. Now, Apptopia provides accurate estimates of downloads, revenue, and usage for all mobile apps to a wide range of cl...

Hello and welcome to Eagle Alpha’s Profiting from Data podcast. Today’s episode features an interview with Vikram Srimurthy and Elizabeth Badolato from EPFR. EPFR provides fund flows & allocations data to the broader market and is a subsidiary of UK firm, Informa financial intelligence. In this episode, the guests talk about EPFR's newest offering - a monthly view of fund flows into over 3,500 ind...

Once a quarter, Eagle Alpha's director of data strategy and analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha's client-only monthly legal workshops. In this episode, Peter and Ben discuss developments surrounding alternative data from the past three months. Apple's controversial iOS 14.5 update...

This episode features an interview with Omri Orgad, Managing Director, North America at Bright Data. Omri has worked with Bright Data for 7 years, witnessing the evolution of the firm from a startup to over 200 employees today. On this episode, Omri talks about Brightdata and their focus on publicly available online data. He brings up the challenges to the adoption of alternative data by instituti...

This episode is a provocative discussion on the challenges and fallacies within ESG including greenwashing, social washing and measuring true changes without data and transparency as a result of flaws in frameworks and scoring. Hosted by Niall Hurley, CEO, Eagle Alpha.

Hello and welcome to the Profiting from Data podcast. Today’s episode is a brand-new segment focusing on legal and compliance issues surrounding alternative data. Once a quarter Eagle Alpha’s Director of Data Strategy and Analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha’s client-only monthly L...

Today’s episode features an interview with John Farrall, Co-Founder of 90 West Data. John has a background in fundamental equity research and following his time at Cleveland Research started 90 West to take customer transaction data to institutional markets. 90 West Data now provides firms with a platform for the tagging, cleansing & contextualization of large data sets making it easy to derive in...

This episode features an interview with Sylvain Forte, CEO of SESAMm, an innovative FinTech company specializing in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for investment. Sylvain discusses his start with alternative data and Sesamm’s textual data, NLP, for ESG scoring with it’s growth and challenges. He also takes a deep dive into the importance of data for risk management, specifically for Private...

This episode features an interview with Jason Hills, Chief Revenue Officer of Facteus. Facteus is a financial data provider within the consumer transaction category of alternative data and he represents the perspective of how data providers view the alternative data industry. In this episode, Jason discusses Corporate, Private Equity and buyside applications of alternative data and emerging use tr...

Today’s episode features an interview with Ben Zweig, CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company indexing hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the first universal HR Database. On this episode, Ben discusses workforce data that is growing with culture scoring and covid adaptability metrics for the buyside, private equity, corporates and government. He also lends hi...

Today’s episode features an interview with Neil Seeman, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Chairman of RIWI Corp. He leads overall Company strategy and RIWI's work in global public health security - and in data solutions to assess, predict, prevent and eradicate violent extremism. On this episode, Neil talks about data in the information ecosystem, covid issues in regards...