Alt data vendors have blacklisted a dozen hedge funds for ripping off methodologies and swiping sample data

Justin Zhen, cofounder of web-scraping data vendor Thinknum, said his company and four others have maintained an informal blacklist for two years.

2 REIT stocks will take the biggest hit from the Century 21 bankruptcy and store closures, including Simon Property Group

Thinknum Alternative Data identified the 10 REITs that collect rent from Century 21, but some are more exposed, such as Simon Property's 5 locations.
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BST Awards 2021: Best alternative data provider to the buy side—Thinknum Alternative Data

Thinknum Alternative Data comprises more than 35 alternative datasets on over 450,000 private and public companies. Thinknum’s database is a library of the public web where real-time and historical ...
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SEC warned that alt data is rife with due diligence risks days before Thinknum crisis emerged

On the corner of 47 th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City, half a dozen cement mixer trucks line up to deliver their loads to the growing construction that will ultimately be JP Morgan’s new ...