Browsing: Asia Pacific
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Japanese Alternative Data Firm Nowcast Expands Consumer Stock Coverage
01/26/2018
Tokyo-based Nowcast has partnered with a domestic source of transaction data to increase its coverage of Japanese consumer stocks. Nowcast, which currently uses point-of-sale data to derive sales projections for ...
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Thai Brokerage Firm Outsources Research Distribution to Smartkarma
12/29/2017
Thai brokerage Country Group Securities has outsourced its equities research distribution to research aggregator Smartkarma while hiring independent research boutique A. Stotz Research to expand its local market equity research ...
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Australian Authorities Implement Tougher Research Regulations
12/26/2017
The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), the country’s financial markets regulator, released new rules governing conflicts and inside information pertaining to sell-side research, largely modeled on US regulation adopted ...
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Déjà Vu: Banks Pile Back Into China Research
12/19/2017
Global investment banks are frantically recruiting Chinese analysts in a reprise of the hiring frenzy of 2015. The stop-go behavior of foreign banks in Asia contrasts with the steady rise ...
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Shrinking Cash Equities & MiFID II Prompt Transformation at CLSA
12/07/2017
Hong Kong based investment bank, CLSA Ltd., is in the process of transforming its traditional institutional research and brokerage business as a result of a huge shrinkage in the institutional ...
Credit Suisse Adds Analysts to Chinese Equity Research Team
11/27/2017
Credit Suisse recently announced that it had added nearly a dozen new equity research analysts to its China Equity Research team enabling the firm to both broaden and deepen its ...
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Research Aggregator SmartKarma Raises $13.5 Million
11/06/2017
Smartkarma, a Singapore-based research distribution platform, raised approximately $13.5 million in a Series B round of financing led by Sequoia India, which brings the company’s total funding to US $21 ...
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Decker & Co. Partners with Pelham Smithers Associates
10/30/2017
San Francisco-based all-Asia specialist broker, Decker & Co., recently announced a partnership with independent research firm, Pelham Smithers Associates, to provide its US institutional clients with research coverage on the ...
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Alternative Data Providers For Top China Equities
10/10/2017
The following is an article that will be published by Alternativedata.org, an informational website about alternative data supported by YipitData and other contributors.
Alternativedata.org identified the 17 largest equities in China, ...
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Pacific Epoch Predates Alternative Data Hype But Not Its Usage
10/06/2017
Although preexisting the rise of alternative data, ten-year old boutique research provider Pacific Epoch exemplifies a research process integrated with proprietary data on the Chinese digital consumer. The firm has ...