About the Webinar
Scan any number of financial industry news publications, and stories regarding Wall Street’s hunger for new data sets to improve alpha abound. While this might seem like a new trend, monetizing data – or the ability to turn corporate data into revenue streams – has existed for decades. But both the supply side and the demand side have changed. On the supply side, the extreme variety of data that now exists (location-based, geospatial, socio-demographic, online search trends, pricing, etc.) combines with high computing power and new digital requirements to create a fertile data market environment. On the demand side, to remain competitive, companies in a wide variety of industries, not just the financial sector, are leveraging data in all forms to maintain an edge or be disruptive.
