Associated Press | FinTech Sandbox

The Associated Press is the world’s largest geopolitical news service with over 1,500 reporters in 200 bureaus around the world. AP is proud to provide FinTech Sandbox companies access to AP’s agenda-setting, real-time geopolitical news feed, historic text archive and additional data sets. From predictive analytics to risk identification and early-warning, AP’s news and data can yield a rich layer of signal discovery. (www.ap.org)

Available products

AP Geopolitical Newswire

AP staff around the world file hundreds of business & geopolitical news alerts and stories daily that inform and influence investors, analysts, consumers and regulators. The live feed is highly structured and features metadata such as subject values, tickers/markets, entities, geography, urgency and more fields and values. (https://www.ap.org/alpha)

AP English News Archive

AP has a deep archive of fully structured historic news for use in machine learning. FinTech Sandbox companies can work with a one year block of AP’s text archive. (https://www.ap.org/content/business-and-finance)

AP Low Latency Government Economic Data

AP delivers economic data from various US government entities such as the Fed, Treasury and Commerce departments. These data are delivered at high speed as measured in milli and nano seconds. Note: A cross connection to AP’s data rack in the NY2 datacenter is required. (https://www.ap.org/alpha)

AP Event Calendar

AP maintains a database of over 140,000 upcoming and potentially newsworthy events of interest to investors and analysts. From earnings dates to product launches and key market events, the AP Planner database is highly structured for easy discovery of events of interest. Delivered via API or webUI. (https://www.ap.org/media-solutions/events-planning/ap-planner)

AP US Election Data

AP counts the votes for all US elections in real-time and reports the vote count via a live API. Ideal for any fintech HFR or algorithmic application that benefits from fast and accurate data insight to each election’s trajectory as the votes are counted. An archive of historic election vote data is also available. (https://www.ap.org/content/politics/elections/election-services)