Alacra have always been keen to try out and use the newer technologies – they already have a blog and a wiki – and now Alacra Store is offering free RSS feeds on all of its Company Snapshots. Anyone can subscribe to company-specific RSS feeds containing credit and investment research from premium content publishers such as CreditSights, Moody’s Investors Service, and Thomson Financial. You simply search by company, click on the RSS button on the Company Snapshot page, and add the URL to your feed reader. The alerts are free but you will have to pay to view the full documents. Alacra Store works on a pay per view basis so you don’t have to worry about hefty up front subscriptions – just get your credit card out.

In addition to the company-specific feeds, there are several publisher-specific feeds that enable you to track all of the latest content from a given provider:

CreditSights –
http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/creditsights
Fitch Ratings –
http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/fitch-ratings
Moody’s Investors Service –
http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/moodys
Newstex – http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/newstex
TF Investext –
http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/tf-investext
Thomson StreetEvents –
http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/publisher-rss/thomson-streetevents

Even better would be the ability to have RSS feeds that monitor a company name within a provider, for example Lukoil in Newstex, but this is a good start. I wish more premium information providers offered RSS alerts.