October 11, 2023

China data brokers find opportunity amid growing restrictions

Featuring: Alex Zerden

Source: Axios

Journalist: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

Open-source intelligence companies are seeing a business opportunity amid rising demand for China-related business and economic data.

"Private-sector actors are increasingly relying upon a range of commercially available data to comply with sanctions and other legal obligations, such as anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and forced labor," Alex Zerden, founder of Capitol Peak Strategies and a former U.S. Treasury official, told Axios.

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Author

  • Alex Zerden

    Adjunct Senior Fellow, Energy, Economics, and Security Program, Founder, Capital Peak Strategies

    Alex Zerden is the founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, a risk advisory firm based in Washington, DC. Capitol Peak works with leading financial institutions, companies and orga...