NEWS & INSIGHTS
Retailing is undergoing a revolution. The rise of online commerce is shaking some of the retail industry’s biggest names, forcing many to retool their businesses for the digital age and killing off weaker members of the herd. The US retail world is particularly challenged, given the vast overbuilding of stores and shopping malls in recent… Continue reading Financial Times: Charting the US Retail Revolution
In days of yore, stock analysts sat outside stores and loading docks, counting. That task has been automated—and how—by a company that last week announced a real-time location-data service called Streams. The service from the New York–based Thasos Group tracks signals from millions of mobile phones to let investors count heads at shopping malls, factories,… Continue reading Barron’s: Counting Heads
New York-based location data analytics provider Thasos Group recently rolled out the last of three components to its Streams time-series data service of data such as consumer traffic to retail stores or a company’s headcount, which can be leading indicators of company-level or broader macroeconomic health, based on mobile phone location signals. The Streams are… Continue reading WatersTechnology: Thasos Completes ‘Streams’ Lineup of Mobile Location Data
A new alternative data platform aims to turn insights streamed from mobile phone locations into a source of returns for fund managers. Could geolocation information gleaned from mobile phones be the next big source of alpha? At least one company is betting that it will. Thasos, an alternative data platform founded out of the Massachusetts… Continue reading Institutional Investor: The Next Big Source of Alpha — Your Phone?
When it comes to MiFID II, what does not kill active managers will make them stronger. So say some industry analysts, whose views run counter to a common opinion among institutional investors — namely, that required research-cost transparency under the European Union’s Markets in Financial Institutions Directive II will make it more difficult and costly… Continue reading Pensions & Investments: MiFID II May End Up Aiding Active Management Firms
The New York Stock Exchange’s response to industry rabble-rouser IEX Group Inc. is open for business. Called NYSE American, the newest U.S. stock exchange went live Monday with a feature IEX first made famous: a 350-microsecond delay on orders, a speed bump that blunts some speed-driven trading strategies. NYSE American marks something of a reversal.… Continue reading Bloomberg: NYSE American Opens to Take on Upstart Exchange IEX
