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Risk.net 03 Feb 2021 Jonathan Reeve, FactSet Alternative data can provide enlightening insights, revealing hidden sources of alpha as well as risks, but it is also cumbersome, voluminous, unstructured and complex. To enable buy- and sell-side clients to navigate and capitalise on this information, FactSet dedicates more than half of its global organisation to data integrity and concordance. The resulting content feeds its workstation analytics and is also available via data feeds, application programming interfaces and public cloud environments. FactSet’s alternative content includes the Revere Business Industry Classification System (RBICS) with Tradenames that maps more than 170,000 products, services and brands to the granular sectors of the RBICS taxonomy. Shipping data, based on the daily processing of over 35,000 bills of lading, provides insights into complex global supply chains of more than 200,000 companies. Global sanctions data combines the US Treas ....