Hormuz Traffic at 5 Ships/Day, But Whose Count? Kpler vs S&P Diverge
Kpler data cited by Reuters on September 1, 2026 put weekend Strait of Hormuz commodity vessel transits at five per…
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Silicon Data Raises $30.5M as CME Preps GPU Futures for Oct. 5
Silicon Data closed a $30.5 million Series A led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with CME Group, Samsung, DRW and…
Facteus Expands Card Panel to 120M+ Accounts, Grows Onyx UPC Data
Facteus said on August 5, 2026 it added 15 million U.S. credit and debit card accounts and expanded its Onyx…
Seersite’s Aug. 6 Launch Claims to Fix Primary Research. Proof Is Pending
Seersite launched an institutional primary-research platform on August 6, 2026, positioning itself as a challenger to project-by-project expert-network workflows, per…
Facteus Adds 15M Card Accounts, Grows UPC Data to $265B in Spend
Facteus said Aug. 5, 2026 it added 15 million U.S. card accounts (pushing total coverage past 120 million) and is…
Kpler Counted 11 Bab el-Mandeb Transits. One Day Is an Alert, Not a Trend
Commodity-vessel traffic through Bab el-Mandeb fell to 11 ships on July 26, the lowest level in months, according to Kpler.…
Consumer Edge: BNPL Usage Nears Record High, Strain Hits Lower-Income Cohorts
Consumer Edge Data reports Buy Now, Pay Later adoption is approaching record levels even as financial strain deepens among lower-income…
MoonFox Widens Offline Foot-Traffic Data to Top China, Global Stocks
MoonFox Alternative Data says it has expanded its offline foot-traffic coverage to leading China and global equities, per Yahoo Finance…
T. Rowe Price’s Alt-Data Pitch: Astrophysicists, Box Labels, and a GPU Bet
In a July 17, 2026 essay, the asset manager describes embedding a 'Investment Data Insights' team inside its stock-picking desks…
PitchBook Wins Best Alternative Data Provider, Waters Rankings 2026
Waters Technology named PitchBook Best Alternative Data Provider in its 2026 rankings, Business Wire reported July 17, 2026, a nod…