Quincy Data: What McKay Brothers, Quincy Data, and Quincy News Actually Do

by Member News

In the early 2010s many financial firms continued an ancient human tradition: shrinking the time it takes to learn about new information in order to manage risk sooner. This time, it was a race to build wireless infrastructure to interconnect key financial venues. Fast forward to today, and as is typical with sprints like this, there was heavy attrition. Very few were successful at doing it at scale.

Lots of stories to tell about this journey some day, but, the net of it is McKay Brothers became the independent commercial champion building and operating such infrastructure, and I believe it is substantially because of our commitment to operate a level playing field platform where all market participants can access the same experience of markets.

If you are wondering how broad “infrastructure” gets for us, it ranges from digging holes for the foundations of 200 foot tall cell towers to programming our own FPGAs. Yes, really. The team is an amazing diversity of backgrounds, and somehow we vibe incredibly well.

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Carbon Arc Launches Lenses, New AI-powered Research Interface

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Get Signals with Hedge Fund Quality Transaction Data for $20/month

What if you could see consumer trends before earnings hit the tape?

Lenses is a new AI-powered research interface built on top of 70+ trillion consumer transactions. It gives you access to the same category of real-world insights used by institutional investors – including credit card spend, foot traffic, app downloads, web traffic, payroll signals, logistics activity, and more.

Instead of paying for and wrangling massive datasets or writing code, you simply ask questions like:

  • “Is Chipotle spend increasing this quarter?”
  • “Are Nike sales trending up or down?”
  • “Is travel demand rolling over?”

Lenses analyzes the data instantly and returns structured answers you can use in your models, research, or trades.

For the first time, anyone can get the same data as Hedge Funds (which has been vetted from a regulatory and compliance perspective as if you were a Hedge Fund) for $20/month.

Try Lenses with a month free using promo code: LEGALOPS30 → https://www.carbonarc.ai/lenses-welcome

Blue Heron Research Partners Is Now Heron Intelligence

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Blue Heron Research Partners announced it is now Heron Intelligence, reflecting the firm’s evolution from a highly differentiated investigative research business into a broader investment intelligence platform designed to help investors make decisions with greater clarity and conviction.

This comes just over a year after the firm built and launched its subscription-based diligence library, now Heron Data Libraries, an important milestone in broadening how clients access Blue Heron’s research and insight. As Heron Intelligence, the firm is building on that momentum through continued investment in technology and AI-enabled capabilities that help transform qualitative insight into structured intelligence and proprietary data at scale. The result is a more powerful platform for investors seeking differentiated insight, earlier signals, and greater conviction throughout their investment process.

View more information here.

Dow Jones Webinar: The Challenges of Debanking and Fair Access Laws | March 31

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The U.S. regulatory landscape is undergoing a “seismic shift” as banks face intense scrutiny over ‘debanking’ practices.

Join the expert panel from Dow Jones Risk, Morgan Lewis, and Guidepost Solutions for an essential discussion that will equip you with the insights needed to navigate the growing conflict between federal financial crime regulations and state-level fair-access laws.

Click here to register.