What RSRCHXchange does

RSRCHXchange is a London-based financial technology company that operates an online marketplace for institutional investment research, founded in 2014. The platform is positioned to modernize the buying and selling of financial research between buy-side institutions (such as asset managers and hedge funds) and sell-side research providers, addressing longstanding inefficiencies in research distribution, payment, and compliance workflows. The marketplace model aggregates supply from sell-side providers and matches it with demand from buy-side firms, with payment and compliance infrastructure embedded into transactions.

The firm operates with 11–50 employees, consistent with a focused B2B fintech serving institutional finance. Co-founder Jeremy Davies is identified as a leader of the company. In February 2017, RSRCHXchange closed a funding round (Round 2) with NEX Opportunities as the lead investor and NEX Group as a participant — a notable strategic signal given NEX's position as a major financial markets infrastructure provider (subsequently acquired by CME Group in 2018). The company's core products and services are the marketplace platform itself, the supporting compliance and payment infrastructure, and (per the firmographic profile) digital channels connecting institutional research supply with demand at scale.

A significant data integrity concern affects this profile: the live website at rsrchxchange.com currently displays Indonesian-language online slot gambling content branded as "1121SLOT", which is inconsistent with the firmographic, funding, and leadership data describing a UK institutional research marketplace. This discrepancy is treated as a domain/hosting artifact and is not considered characteristic of the actual RSRCHXchange business.

Name

RSRCHXchange

Website

https://rsrchxchange.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RSRCHXchange is a London-based fintech that operates an online marketplace for institutional investment research, connecting buy-side firms with sell-side research providers. Founded in 2014, the company received strategic backing from NEX Group in 2017.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Research Marketplace

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Industry & Sector Research (Syndicated/Custom) (BPAHALAE)

Keywords

• Institutional research marketplace
• Financial research platform
• Research distribution
• Buy-side research access
• Sell-side research monetization

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Gaming Transaction Fees: Platform generates revenue through transaction fees on player bets and wagers placed on slot games. Players deposit funds and place bets, with the platform earning a margin on gaming transactions. Revenue model relies on player deposit volume and wagering activity.
2. Deposit-based Gaming: Players fund accounts with deposits starting at $99-$199, receiving bonus credits (100% welcome bonus for new members). Platform retains value from deposit-wagering activity and promotional bonus distributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

RSRCHXchange operates an online marketplace for institutional financial research, connecting research providers (sell-side) with research consumers (buy-side). The platform modernizes the way financial research is bought and sold by providing a centralized venue for research distribution, discovery, access, and payment.

Product overview

RSRCHXchange operates 1121SLOT, a unified online slot gaming platform that provides hundreds of slot games from internationally recognized providers. The core offering is the 1121SLOT platform itself, supported by a dedicated mobile application for Android and iOS, and a Link Alternatif (alternative link) service that guarantees uninterrupted 24/7 access. The platform emphasizes RNG-certified game fairness, real-time prize pools with multiplier mechanics (X10 through X10,000), and a suite of promotional programs including welcome bonuses, weekly cashback, and referral rewards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RSRCHXchange Marketplace Platform Online marketplace platform for institutional financial research that connects research providers (sell-side investment banks, brokerages, and independent research firms) with research consumers (buy-side asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds). The platform enables research listing, discovery, access provisioning, pricing transparency, and transactional settlement, supporting compliance with research payment unbundling regulations such as MiFID II.

Quantifiable outcome

• Withdrawal processing time of approximately 3 minutes based on customer testimonial
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg Terminal: Bloomberg is the dominant incumbent for institutional financial data, news, and research distribution, with terminals installed across nearly every major buy-side and sell-side institution. While not a marketplace per se, it is the default channel that any research marketplace must coexist with or displace.
• Refinitiv (LSEG): Refinitiv, now part of the London Stock Exchange Group, provides financial data infrastructure including research distribution, ESG data, and analytics to institutional clients. Its Eikon/Workspace platform competes for the same institutional research budgets that RSRCHXchange monetizes.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence (Tremor): S&P Global Market Intelligence provides institutional research distribution, quant analytics, and fundamental data to investment professionals worldwide. Its wide portfolio overlaps with RSRCHXchange's research discovery and consumption value proposition at the buy-side.

Direct peers

• AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a leading AI-powered market intelligence and research platform used by enterprises and financial institutions to search, discover, and centralize external research. It overlaps RSRCHXchange in serving buy-side research consumption workflows and is a direct competitor for institutional research access budgets.
• Visible Alpha: Visible Alpha operates a research marketplace and data aggregation platform that connects buy-side investors with independent equity research providers via a subscription/pay-per-view model. It targets the same MiFID II unbundling use case and institutional clients as RSRCHXchange.
• M Science: M Science is an alternative data and research provider that brokers data-driven insights to institutional investors, often via subscription and panel-based access. It operates in the same institutional research consumption/procurement budget as RSRCHXchange.
• ResearchPool: ResearchPool operates a marketplace specifically designed to facilitate the buying and selling of investment research between research providers and buy-side institutions. It is the closest functional analogue to RSRCHXchange in serving the MiFID II unbundling workflow with a platform-based, two-sided model.

Emerging players

• Sentio (now part of AlphaSense): Sentio provided document-level research analytics and search for institutional research workflows, comparable to part of the workflow that RSRCHXchange aimed to facilitate. It was acquired by AlphaSense in 2022, illustrating the consolidator dynamic in this market.
• YCharts: YCharts provides investment research, financial data, and analytics tools targeted at advisors and asset managers. It serves overlapping institutional and intermediary segments and competes for the same research-discovery wallet share.

Others

• Argus Research: Argus Research is an independent equity research provider that distributes its research on its own platform and via third-party marketplaces. It represents the supply side of the marketplace model that RSRCHXchange would aggregate, and is a relevant reference point for marketplace-side economics.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rsrchx
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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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