Data is very much on Colin Lambert’s mind this week, but not in the usual sense. Thursday saw two glitches involving economic data releases, one of which had a comedy element, the other more troublesome, and while he understands mistakes happen, he wonders if we are going to see more of these incidents following the rules around the release of certain dataets being changed.

Lambert is then joined by Rowland Park, co-founder and CEO of LimeGlass, a fintech company looking to evolve how research is consumed by streamlining access to the critical components of what can sometimes be very long reports. There is time to talk about alternative data sources, the personalisation of reports and how the research business could evolve – leading Lambert to speculate, have we finally found a good use for all those reports that few, if anyone, reads?