2iQ Insider Transactions Data

What it is

The institutional half of a Frankfurt vendor that most readers meet through its free site. 2iQ runs Capitol Trades, which is congressional disclosures with no account and no price; this is the other business — a global insider-transactions dataset sold to funds through a sales conversation.

What is being sold is not access to filings. Insider disclosures are public everywhere they exist; what is expensive is making fifty countries' worth of them comparable. This dataset carries a stable identifier for each insider across companies and filings, harmonised role and seniority labels, event tags for placements and mergers, amendment handling, related-party links, and symbology mapped to Bloomberg and Refinitiv identifiers. A quantitative study of insider behaviour needs every one of those, and none of them is in the raw filings.

Pricing

Not published, anywhere. The vendor's pages route to a contact form or a trial request, and the AWS Data Exchange listing — brokered by BattleFin, delivered as CSV over S3 — offers a three-month evaluation subscription free while pricing production access on request.

That is the normal shape for institutional data and it is also the reason this card carries no number. Treat it as a contract, not a subscription, and assume a procurement process.

Data & coverage

The vendor states 8.1 million transactions, more than 200,000 insiders and 60,000 stocks across 50 countries, averaging twelve years of history per region. Delivery is by API, a real-time feed or an end-of-day feed, with a full historical extract available for backtesting; the AWS listing describes the update frequency as intraday.

One caution about those figures. The AWS Data Exchange listing for the same dataset claims more than 10 million transactions and 500,000 insiders — a different description of the same product, published by the same vendor through a marketplace. The numbers above are the ones on 2iQ's own site, and the disagreement is worth raising in any evaluation.

Insider transactions only. No 13F, no Schedule 13D or 13G, no congressional data.

Integrations

An API exists but is a delivery format inside a contract rather than a self-serve product: no public documentation, no published rate limits, no key you can mint. The alternatives are a real-time or end-of-day feed in a format agreed with you, or CSV files over S3 through AWS Data Exchange. Named distribution partners include WRDS, Bloomberg, FactSet, FIS, Liquidnet and Verus, which is the honest description of who this is for.

No MCP server and no spreadsheet add-in.

Limitations

• No price, no self-serve, no public docs. Nothing here can be evaluated by an individual in an afternoon, and the trial is a sales conversation.
• Insider transactions only. Everything else this category covers is somewhere else.
• The vendor's two published descriptions of the dataset disagree on transaction and insider counts. Neither is reckless, and it does mean the spec sheet should be confirmed in writing.
• The terminal product is never named on the public site — the solutions pages refer to "our terminal product" without telling you what it is called or showing it.
• No latency figure is published. Real-time and intraday are the only words offered, with no number attached to either.

Alternatives

Insider Screener is the self-serve version of the same idea — seventeen markets, published prices, an API from $49 a month — with far less history and no identifier work. Fintel covers thirty-odd markets for ownership and short interest at consumer prices. OpenInsider is free and US only. For the congressional data this vendor also publishes, see Capitol Trades. The rest of the category is at insider, 13F and congressional trade trackers.