Get your data inside MSCI’s indexes and analytics.
The MSCI × BattleFin Data Competition is open to alternative data vendors. MSCI is looking for datasets it can build into new indexes, factors and risk signals, and list in front of its institutional clients.
Launched at BattleFin Connect: AI & Data, New York
Who your data would reach
MSCI’s clients span asset managers, asset owners, banks, hedge funds, insurers, wealth managers and corporates.
$21 trillion in assets is benchmarked to MSCI indexes, and MSCI’s risk analytics compute more than 5.9 billion positions a week on average.
Three ways your data can show up in MSCI products
Index
New thematic and custom indexes, tracked by ETFs and structured products.
Analytics
New factors, signals and risk insights inside Barra and MSCI’s portfolio tools.
Data Marketplace
Your dataset listed alongside MSCI’s own data and insights, in front of its institutional clients.
How you’d earn from it
Depending on the product and how your data is used, partnerships can follow one or more of these models.
Direct data subscription
MSCI licenses your dataset for a recurring fee.
Full partnership, with two recurring revenue streams
A share of index licensing fees, based on ETF assets and/or structured-product notional, plus a share of Barra revenue or a data license for analytics. The analytics share may be performance-based on incremental revenue.
Additional client license fees
From banks, asset managers and asset owners using the resulting data and products.
Commercial models are non-contractual, may vary by product, client type, usage and volume, and are subject to a signed agreement with MSCI.
Any analytics-related arrangement would preserve MSCI’s existing Barra economics, commercial independence and unrestricted ability to serve its global institutional client base.
Competition themes, ranked by MSCI’s priority
Datasets in any of these areas are eligible. Those closest to the top of the list are MSCI’s biggest focus.
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Supply chain and physical-world resilience
Supply chain, shipping and freight, transport, geospatial
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Semantic content and sentiment
Earnings transcripts, sell-side research, news, social media
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Macro and economic data
Economic indicators, consumer spending, inflation
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Flow and fund transparency
Retail, fund, asset and hedge fund flows as leading signals
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Company and private-company data
Company descriptions, product catalogs, private-company fundamentals
What MSCI will assess
Every submission is reviewed against six criteria.
- Coverage
- Ideally 90% of cumulative issuer market cap, measured against the MSCI ACWI IMI.
- Accuracy and completeness
- Validated against reference sources, with minimal gaps.
- Timeliness
- Reliable delivery, with a lag that fits index rebalancing.
- History and corporate events
- A long point-in-time history that accounts for mergers, spin-offs and identifier changes.
- Governance
- A rules-based, transparent and auditable data methodology.
- No restrictions
- No existing restriction on creating and selling financial products built on the dataset.
Subject to MSCI review. Every partnership depends on MSCI’s Research and Data teams confirming the scope, quality and transferability of the data you can share.
Think your dataset fits?
Send the BattleFin team a short overview of your data: what it covers, how much history you have and how it’s delivered. We’ll follow up with next steps.
Source: MSCI. Data as of May 2026 unless stated otherwise. Client counts as of December 31, 2025, based on Thinking Ahead Institute and Pensions & Investments studies (pensions, asset managers) and SWFI (banks). AUM benchmarked to MSCI indexes as of December 31, 2025. Weekly positions as of January 2026. Full methodology and disclaimer at msci.com.
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