The Alternative Data: Access & Alpha Conference, hosted by the alternative data-service provider Eagle Alpha, was held in New York City on May 15, 2019. GTCOM Technology (USA) Co., Ltd. (GTCOM U.S.), invited as a strategic partner, shared its unique cross-language alternative-data innovation solutions with representatives from various financial enterprises.

▲ GTCOM U.S. is invited to

Alternative Data: Access & Alpha Conference

The conference was centered on alternative data and financial technology. More than 220 renowned investment institutions, hedge funds and financial technology-related enterprises, including JPMorgan, Citadel and DE Shaw, attended the conference, at which as many as 75 innovative applications of alternative data in the financial field were displayed.

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In the exhibition area, GTCOM U.S. presented JoveBird, a cross-language alternative financial data platform, and JoveMind, a knowledge-graph building and analysis platform. Additionally, it shared the latest application cases of alternative data, including the Hong Kong Stock Index 100, crude-oil index and index forecast, and had in-depth discussions with many guests from financial enterprises.

Alternative data has gradually become the "new oil" in the field of financial technology amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data. Thus, it has brought unique business value to global financial quantification. GTCOM (Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd.), as China's first enterprise to engage in alternative data research, has accumulated vast amounts of global cross-language data resources. It has conducted integrated classification and deep mining of various types of data through natural-language processing, knowledge-graph analysis and market sentiment analysis so as to help hedge funds, private equity funds, investment banks and other enterprises implement risk-control prediction and management. Thus, GTCOM provides financial quantification solutions to help financial companies obtain excess returns.

▲ Participants learn about alternative data products from GTCOM U.S.

As the first overseas subsidiary of GTCOM, GTCOM U.S. was officially registered in the United States in late 2018. Since the beginning of 2019, GTCOM's alternative data has been launched on official platforms such as BattleFin, Alternative.org, Nuedata and Eagle Alpha, all of which are respected in the realm of alternative data. GTCOM U.S. has steadily become one of the most influential companies in alternative data in the United States. This conference will further facilitate the business expansion of GTCOM U.S. in North America and strengthen its presence in the financial sector.