Using Alternative Data - Capital Markets Solutions

Unique, proprietary data & analytics to generate alphaDun & Bradstreet delivers the world’s most comprehensive business data & analytics, giving investment managers the ability to extract alpha and improve performance. Get the insights needed to outperform your benchmarks – and your competition with trusted data on more than hundreds of millions businesses.

Exceptional data to drive profitable decisions

Dun & Bradstreet is the global leader in commercial data & analytics for a reason. Our proprietary alternative datasets reveal trends in trade credit and payment behavior that have been shown to contain many statistically significant sources of alpha for both US equities and corporate bonds.

Apply our data to multiple asset classes - public equity, public credit, private equity, private credit – and realize distinct value.

Public Equity
Systematic, quantitative, and “quantamental” equity investors will discover dozens of statistically significant alpha factors stemming from the world’s largest source of B2B trade, payment, and supply chain data.
Public Credit
Credit investors will find many factors that can help them better explain, price, and ultimately invest. Our trade credit data is instrumental in pricing any corporate risk asset, such as investment-grade corporate bonds, high yield, credit default swaps, or stock volatility.
Private Equity
Integrate thorough due diligence using four different US credit risk models and a global risk model to understand probability of failure in the next 12 months.
Private Credit
Use the largest collection of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) data to see where your competitors are investing; also leverage Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary risk scores to better explain and price loans.

Gain an edge on the marketInvestment managers need unique intelligence on public and private companies — data & analytics that will empower you to comply with regulations, increase operational efficiency, and generate alpha.

Risk and Regulatory ComplianceReduced exposure with improved understanding leads to consistently better decision-makingDo you really know the companies you trade with - their affiliates, sister companies and partners? The hidden relationships and complex connections so common in today's market environment increase the chance of taking unwanted risk in your trading strategy. Improved understanding of the companies you do business with leads to consistently better decision-making.Learn More

Alpha GenerationGain an edge on the marketplace and beat benchmarksDun & Bradstreet's data and analytics provide capital markets firms with the capabilities to earn investment alpha. Our premium data sets help you stand out from your competition, and provide actionable insight and data that is hard to find anywhere else. Start using data in a smarter way, and generate the intelligence you need to outperform benchmarks - and your competition.Learn More

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