AlpacaTech provides Minkabu's Japanese and US stock news on Snowflake Marketplace
AlpacaTech, a subsidiary of FOLIO Holdings that provides innovative financial solutions as part of the SBI Group, has begun providing Japanese and US stock news data owned by Minkabu The Infonoid and its subsidiary Minkabu Solution Services on the Snowflake Marketplace.
Snowflake is currently accelerating its adoption as a data warehouse for various businesses including financial institutions, research organizations, and consultants. This makes it possible to easily evaluate sample news data available on the Snowflake Marketplace. Through this initiative, companies and institutional investors can access reliable and timely stock market information to strengthen data-driven decision making.
Details of data available now
| Sales Data | Details |
|---|---|
| Japanese Stock & Economic News | Real-time access to market conditions related to Japanese stocks and foreign exchange, company materials/financial results, and economic news |
| US Stock & Economic News | Real-time access to market conditions related to US stocks, company materials/financial results, and economic news |
| *Additional data lineup will be expanded in the future |
Expected use cases and target Audience
| Use Case | Target |
|---|---|
| Utilization as input data for integrated data platforms | Banks, securities firms, insurance companies; data strategy departments and subsidiaries of major financial groups |
| Utilization as fact-checking material for financial information | Banks, securities firms, insurance companies; research institutions, think tanks |
| Utilization as investment analysis material | Asset management companies; hedge funds |
Data categories
| Category | Sample (Headline) |
|---|---|
| Economy | Tomorrow's Economic Schedule — Import Car Sales, etc. |
| Earnings Reports | Company, First Half Ordinary Profit Up 4%, July-September Quarter Also Up 6% |
| Foreign Exchange | Afternoon: Bond Summary - Futures Decline, 10-year Bond Auction Shows Strong Results but Weighed Down by Rising Stocks |
| Company News | Company's FY2024 August Performance Exceeds Forecast |
| Market Overview | Tokyo Stocks (Close) = Up 743 Points, Broad Buying on Rapid Yen Depreciation |
| Featured | Notable [Stock Split] Issues Today (Announced After Market Close on ● ) |
| Special Features | [High Dividend Yield Stocks] Top 50 <Value Stock Special> (As of ●/●) |
| Breaking News | Pre-opening [Market Orders] Net Buy Ranking Tokyo Prime Large Caps ●● Company, ●● Company, ●● Company |
| Technical | [Market Thermometer] TSE Prime Rise-Fall Ratio Trend (25-day Average) |
Future Snowflake-related solutions
In addition to building data utilization platforms using Snowflake and consulting support to realize the above use cases, AlpacaTech plans to expand its data utilization support system by providing tools that enable trial analysis in the Snowflake environment using sample sales data. The company also begun developing the AI data agent "AlphaCrafter" that operates on Snowflake.
About AlpacaTech's AI Data Agent "AlphaCrafter"
"AlphaCrafter" is a service that automatically generates delivery content and creative materials from big data, contributing to revenue growth through advanced and efficient digital marketing. "AlphaCrafter" is an AI agent with dual roles as both a data scientist and creative producer. As a data scientist, "AlphaCrafter" can categorize and score real-time market data including financial news according to client preferences, pick up items in order of customer interest, provide summaries, and perform more in-depth data analysis. As a creative producer, by predetermining formats and concepts, it automatically embeds content output by "AlphaCrafter" as a data scientist and automatically generates banners and landing pages.
AlpacaTech will continue to accelerate business growth with AI. Please experience this agent "AlphaCrafter" that delivers high-quality distribution content while saving time and cost.
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