Alternatives to IJGlobal for bank desks
Alternatives to IJGlobal for bank desks are best organised by tool class, because IJGlobal itself spans several: infrastructure journalism, deal and asset data, league tables and sector research, now offered within Green Street Infrastructure. A desk looking for an alternative usually means one of those jobs specifically, and different vendors lead in each. This page maps the classes factually, from each vendor's own published claims, without invented rankings or scores.
What IJGlobal covers
IJGlobal's data and news sit inside Green Street Infrastructure, which describes the offering as IJGlobal's trusted data and exclusive news combined with Green Street's more than forty years of rigorous, independent research. Published pillars include unbiased research across ten key infrastructure sectors, data on deals, firms, funds and market trends, global news coverage of infrastructure and energy finance, live league tables, and an asset radar built on IJGlobal's database of 45,000 assets. Stated audiences are developers, lenders, investors and law firms.
For bank EF and PF desks the service is strongest as the editorial and data reference for the infrastructure market: closed-deal history, arranger benchmarking and specialist reporting with a long track record. An alternative therefore has to be judged against the specific job the desk actually uses IJGlobal for, whether awareness or data or league tables, before any substitution makes sense.
Alternatives to IJGlobal in the same editorial class
The closest class of alternative is another specialist news, data and events service for the same market. Proximo, part of the Exile Group, describes itself as a B2B market intelligence provider in project, energy and infrastructure finance, and publishes its scale figures directly: more than 11,000 closed deals, more than 18,500 pipeline deals, more than USD 1 trillion in annual deal volumes tracked, 18 dashboards, more than 500 news stories monthly, and more than five industry events a year with an online dealmaker community.
TXF, Proximo's sibling brand in the same group, covers the export, agency, project and commodity trade finance markets with its own stated mix of deal data, dashboards, news cadence and events, including more than 6,800 viewable deals and more than 400 news stories a month. TXF is the nearer fit when a desk's book leans towards export credit agency backed buyer credit rather than pure infrastructure. Both brands compete in the same editorial and community class as IJGlobal, and choosing among them is a judgment on coverage fit, not on category.
Markets platforms and AI research search
Two adjacent classes appear on shortlists without being direct substitutes. Bloomberg Terminal-class platforms provide multi-asset market data, news and analytics with coverage across markets, industries, companies and securities; they are the financial industry's horizontal infrastructure rather than infrastructure-market specialists, and they do not publish PF league tables. They belong in the stack for pricing and broad news, not as an IJGlobal replacement.
AI research platforms such as AlphaSense search and summarise a stated corpus of more than 500 million premium documents, including filings, broker research and expert transcripts, with generative search and monitoring agents. That class serves deep company and thematic research across many industries. It complements rather than replaces specialist infrastructure deal data, since its corpus is documents rather than a curated PF transaction database.
Filings monitoring for bank desks
A different class again is public-record monitoring. Stonewake, a newer platform purpose-built for bank EF, PF and CRE desks, publishes short verified briefs built from public filings and registers, where each stated fact must trace to a cited source record and briefs that fail verification are held back. It adds country intelligence for 245 jurisdictions with every datum naming its source and adverse media screening of organisations, and it does not publish personal data.
This class answers a risk and evidence job rather than a market-awareness job: it records what registers, regulatory filings and official gazettes state about counterparties and markets, with the writing step barred from adding, removing or altering a fact and each brief displaying its dates and sourced-fact count. It offers no league tables, no sector research and no newsroom, so it substitutes for none of IJGlobal's editorial strengths; it is an alternative only in the sense that some desks discover their real gap is the filings record rather than market coverage.
Matching the class to the desk's gap
A practical shortlist follows from naming the gap precisely. Desks that need infrastructure market journalism, closed-deal data and league tables should compare IJGlobal within Green Street Infrastructure against Proximo, with TXF in scope where the book mixes export credit and project finance. Desks whose gap is market data and pricing infrastructure look at Terminal-class platforms. Research teams that live in filings and broker notes look at AlphaSense-class search. Desks whose gap is verified counterparty and market monitoring from public records, with country context beside frameworks such as the OECD country risk classification, look at Stonewake-class monitoring.
None of these vendors publishes pricing on its public site; all sell through direct contact with quotes arranged per institution, so the comparison is on fit rather than list price. Many banks end up holding more than one class at once, which is the strongest sign that these are different tools rather than one ranked market, and the cleanest procurement outcomes name the class in the requirement before any vendor is shortlisted.
Vendor figures in this page are as published on the vendors' own sites, accessed 11 August 2026.