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The Fintechs involved in this space are either designing tools (i.e. algorithms) that can extract value from any of these sources; or they are overlaying them with other analytics. Some are B2B and some are B2C.
Simply Wall St from Australia is a B2C Fintech focused on visualization and info graphics of stocks. Their Snowflake visuals are enticing and check them out.
Elements of differentiation: visualization of individual stock investments – Snowflake visuals!
Business stage - strategy: Subscriptions-based
Partnerships: StockTwits
Amareos from Hong Kong, contributes with heat maps and data visualization. Their distinct granular approach to sentiments and emotions (a dozen different types) and thei in-house research reports based on their insights; are worth checking out.
Elements of differentiation: A very broad range of sentiments and emotions for assets or economic regions
Business stage – strategy: Early stage
Partnerships: Thomson Reuters - Amareos App on Thomson Reuters Eikon Studio
Heckyl, out of India, is processing a large database of stocks and news, and applying sentiment-tagging, news-clustering and using a discovery engine. Their three products separate sentiments from news, from prices, and their “specialty” is sentiment coverage for private companies.
Elements of differentiation: Triple focus-products: News, Prices, and private companies & proprietary data
Business stage – strategy: Paying clients globally
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Last stop before heading over to Europe
TipRanks from Israel, is a platform that ranks financial analysts and bloggers and their stock recommendations. Seeking Alpha, obviously is a top “contributor” to the shaping of these sentiments.
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Business stage – strategy: Subscriptions-based
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Sentifi, is a Swiss based company that uses crowd sourcing algorithms to provide actionable investment advice to large financial institutions and to financial media companies. They have chosen to have a couple of regionally-focused versions and they offer different products (myMarkets; myPublishing, myCompany, myScore) for individual, business, content.
Elements of differentiation: Multiple products for different needs (individual, business, content)- myMarkets; myPublishing, myCompany, myScore
Business stage – strategy: Subscriptions-based but now free
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Sentiment analysis for trading and risk management
Acuity Trading (B2B2C) is a UK based company founded by veterans of the financial news industry. Acuity offers different ways of visualising News Sentiment data through data manipulation via brokers, banks and financial portals on a licence basis. Acuity’s tools are well liked by retail brokers, due to their trade provoking visualisations.
Elements of differentiation: Visualisation of Sentiment data as a tool
Business stage – strategy: B2B2C
Partnerships: ETX Capital, ADS Securities, Dow Jones, MONEX and more.
Yukka Lab, German based, for retail traders and professionals, with three products: SentiTrade, Senticomm, Portfolio Simulator.
Elements of differentiation: Three products for the investment amateurs and professionals.
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StockPulse another German based, sentiment analysis company who is offering their signaling services to traders (both retail and professionals)
Elements of differentiation: Trading signal provider for retail and professionals.
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SemLab is a Dutch company that serves other industries too beyond the financial sector. They showcase a dozen (!) services that target market risk, or asset specific risk, or news and analytics combinations. They are positioned in the broader Big Data space and not only for financials.
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EagleAlpha is an Irish company, their focus is on parsing news, info, research from the investment world and towards alpha generation.
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Generic sentiment analysis and with a customer-centric focus
Aylien from Dublin is focused on extracting sentiment from text; their positioning is to customer-centric companies that can extract value from sentiment analysis.
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TheySay (UK), have also broader focus beyond financial markets and a similar focus on sentiment analysis around customer. They offer an OpenAPI.
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Sentiment analysis is at the very early stages of being integrated in financial institutions. I see more of that integration in the US.
We start New York with the most seasoned in the sentiment space globally, Kensho. They were founded in 2013 and we profiled them more than a year ago on Kensho: Warren is like Watson and Siri, for analysts, investors and traders. They maintain their subscription-based partnership with CNBCPro and are a laser focus on natural language processing and on producing actionable insights. They maintain their subscription-based partnership with CNBCPro and are used in house by Glodman Sachs who is a strategic investor.
Earlier stage Fintechs in the space are:
ISentium in the US, who parses financial tweets and data. They use scientists that apply algorithms processing unstructured financial data. They target hedge funds and any quant DIY trader, looking for predictive analytics.
PsychSignal is focused on detecting moods in trading; a strictly B2B focus for traders and investment professionals that focuses more in mood detection rather than news. So, finding actionable insights without any events.
More focused on news, early bird detection of the effect on the markets, is Contix.
Market Prophit is extracting value from conversations and with a focus on financial bloggers. They process real time data and natural language, to produce bullish/bearish signals and identify buzz themes in the market. They are working in collaboration with Interactive brokers
HedgeChatter, who covers US stocks with sentiment analysis from news and social media. They offer a unique Manipulation Index that detects stock manipulation from “social attacks”.
Similarly, E-trade is in partnership Tipranks adding to a sentiment and social media angle to the tools the old time disruptor offers.
Ameritrade has developed its own social sentiment offering, Likefolio, which curates Twitter content and offers “color” from the market (trader podcasts, crowd-sourced) research.
Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, both filter Tweets and financial information; but Fintechs are pushing the frontiers on producing Social Alpha.
Combining sentiment analysis from crowd sourced data & quantum encryption, Running Alpha offers a smarter way for seeing investment opportunities before they get noticed; helping investors be first at exploiting high-impact performance trends with confidence. They offer two sophisticated heat map products classified as Sentiment-Aware Portfolio undetected sentiment is their focus. I see them with more of a full stack approach to financial analytics through Big Data, including a sentiment analysis element.
The partnership of EidoSearch (using big data analytics for prediction) and Stocktwits, is also generating sentiment based actionable insights.