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.

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 App Annie securities fraud case and SEC examinations, conducting appropriate diligence with risk-based assessments, and the documentation of vendor evaluation. The group also looks ahead to 2022 and highlights what they believe to be most important going into the new year. Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn, and your host, Ronan Crosson.

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, App Annie, and the SEC’s decision to charge them with securities fraud. The group addresses the confusion surrounding the use of insider trading law in this securities fraud case, its impact on the decision on the wider market, and provides expert advice for app data buyers following the SEC's decision. Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn, and your host, Ronan Crosson.

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 clients, with financial services being the fastest-growing client segment. Jonathan explains Apptopia's data gathering process, partnering with app developers and collecting billions of publicly available metadata points for their relational algorithms. Additionally, they talk about growth in private markets, the importance of a robust compliance process when dealing with data sources in the media spotlight, regional variations for mobile app data, and what's to come in 2022.

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 individual hedge funds managing over 1.6 trillion in assets. Additionally, the group discusses how hedge fund data and information around hedge funds is one of the most requested datasets by EPFR's clients, and dive deeper into insights around fund flows categorized by country.. The conversation focuses on value versus growth, the outperformance of value, and how this has developed since 2019. Please enjoy this conversation between Vic, Liz and your host, Niall Hurley.

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 has been central to many alt data discussions over the last year. They also discuss SEC examinations for alt data regulation and provide alt data insights based on questions the Lowenstein Sandler team are facing. Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn, and your host, Ronan Crosson.

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 institutions, as data and technology, as well as legal and compliance are the existing hurdles to faster adoption. Omri provides advice to senior managers in banking and insurance, saying that firms can’t exist and truly thrive in today’s world without using data and that online data is the best possible resource to break down both value and risk. Please enjoy this dialogue between Omri and your host, Eagle Alpha’s CEO, Niall Hurley.

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 Legal Workshops. Here they will reflect on the most pertinent legal and compliance topics that face the alternative data industry. In this episode, Peter and Ben discuss due diligence questionnaires, materiality and SEC examinations, exploring whether the Reddit versus Wall Street controversy has had an impact on SEC visits. They provide updates from the HiQ versus LinkedIn web-scraping investigation, as well as new developments in The Weather Channel versus The City of Los Angeles geolocation case. Finally, the guests explore changes surrounding data vendors and rejection, and the very topical developments in China surrounding privacy laws, app tracking, and state secrets. Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn and your host, Ronan Crosson.

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 insights from data. On this episode, John talks about his decision not to sell data to the sell side, the risks of allocating scarce resources when testing a dataset and his experience as an entrepreneur dealing with hot button issues like PII and MNPI. He also talks about the opportunities around streamlining the entire compliance process, data vendor consolidation and the most interesting datasets for institutional investors in 2021. Please enjoy this dialogue between John and your host, Emmett Kilduff.