Best data feed management solution—S&P Global Market Intelligence

Product overview—Xpressfeed

S&P Global Market Intelligence specializes in the creation, curation, maintenance and delivery of accurate and transparent capital markets-related information and datasets, supported by a range of technologies and ancillary services. The firm’s data and technology subject matter experts collaborate with their buy-side and sell-side clients to help them make the most judicious business and investment decisions, confident in the knowledge those decisions are repeatable and defendable by virtue of the data underpinning them.

The solution

A consistent frustration cited by capital markets decision-makers centers not on a lack of data, but a lack of curated and easy-to-consume data that can be integrated into existing platforms and workflows to inform critical business and investment decisions. To that end, Xpressfeed, S&P Global Market Intelligence’s proprietary flagship feed delivery offering, provides users with a single integrated data source in item-level transaction files, including a range of datasets that firms typically use to drive their quantitative research and modeling functions. Xpressfeed combines the breadth and depth of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s content with select third-party and alternative data vendors to deliver data through an integrated solution that helps clients enhance their data lakes, proprietary analytics, financial portals and customer relationship management systems. Data is delivered in zipped packages and posted to a secure location, accessible via File Transfer Protocol or Xpressfeed Web Service, allowing users to receive only the data they require.

Data coverage

• More than 200 datasets, including Compustat and Capital IQ point-in-time financials, estimates, ownership, transactions, corporate relationship and key developments, featuring call transcripts and other non-financial details.
• Alternative data, such as machine-readable textual, environmental, supply chain and foot traffic data.
• Credit ratings from S&P Global Ratings, Fitch and Moody’s. Ratings content is organized into packages defined by issuer sectors and contains issuer- and issue-level details.
• Cross-reference capabilities to enable linking across entities using a variety of entity-level identifiers.
• Data updates available on a daily and intraday basis.
• MediaCensus Broadband & Video dataset.

Recent milestones

The following datasets have recently been added to Xpressfeed:

• Global machine-readable filings
• Commercial prospecting
• Company connections
• Additional environmental, social and governance data
• Market intelligence news
• Medium and heavy commercial vehicle forecasts
• MediaCensus Broadband & Video dataset.

Future objectives

S&P Global Market Intelligence continues to grow its offerings for clients through its continued expansion of traditional and alternative data—both through homegrown products and collaboration with select third-party data vendors.

Why S&P Global Market Intelligence won

S&P Global Market Intelligence follows up its win in the inaugural Best data feed management solution category last year by winning it again, thanks to its outstanding Xpressfeed delivery offering. The platform is designed to provide clients with a single data portal delivering item-level transaction files, allowing them to optimize the transparency and overall quality of their business and investment decisions. Xpressfeed assumes the heavy lifting associated with sourcing and managing complex datasets, freeing clients from laborious data sourcing and wrangling functions, allowing them to focus on higher-value tasks. Who would bet against S&P Global Market Intelligence making it a hat trick of wins in this category next year?