Nexus of Influence — Political Intelligence Platform
The Nexus of Influence is Lynx MI's cross-source intelligence engine. It correlates three distinct public datasets — SEC insider filings, congressional STOCK Act disclosures, and lobbying registrations — to surface connections between corporate activity and political decision-making that would be nearly impossible to discover manually.
Data Sources
The platform integrates filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Form 4 insider trading disclosures), the Clerk of the U.S. House and Secretary of the Senate (STOCK Act financial disclosures by members of Congress), and the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) quarterly reports filed with Congress. By linking these three datasets through shared entities — ticker symbols, company names, politicians, and lobbying firms — we create a unified view of how money, power, and information flow between Wall Street and Capitol Hill.
For example, when a member of the Senate Banking Committee purchases shares in a regional bank, and that same bank's CEO also purchases shares in the same week, while the bank has active lobbying registrations targeting the Banking Committee — the Nexus surfaces that convergence as a high-signal event. These multi-source correlations are scored and ranked, giving you a prioritized list of the most noteworthy connections in the current market.
Congressional Trading Tracker
Under the STOCK Act of 2012, members of Congress must disclose securities transactions within 45 days. While this data is public, it is notoriously difficult to search and cross-reference. Lynx MI aggregates these disclosures, normalizes ticker symbols, and cross-references each trade with the politician's committee assignments to identify potential information advantages. You can browse trades by individual politician, party, committee, or ticker, and see how congressional portfolios perform versus the S&P 500 over time.