This post is inspired by the presentation by Ashish Kaushal at London Value Investing Club. The content of the post, however, is the view of the author. Humans have always considered some objects as assets. Food, shelter, clothing, water. These have… Continue reading →
You have excess capital and want to make an investment. Perhaps you want some stability, so you look to the fixed income market, where your return is, well, fixed. Or perhaps you want a lot more potential upside, and a… Continue reading →
A recent prediction about Index Funds from Michael Burry warns investors about a possible bubble. Burry, who had correctly predicted the derivatives-based 2008 Financial Crash – and whose character was the star of the film The Big Short, a movie… Continue reading →
How many languages do you speak? Three? Five? One? If your native language isn’t English, it is extremely likely your second language is. We can deduce that because you’re reading this in English, but also by the high prevalence of… Continue reading →
On 30 June 2019, we completed 5 years of our darling – CityFALCON. Over the last 5 years, I’ve followed my passion (not “worked”) – a lot. On average about 60 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That gave… Continue reading →
Commission-free is a hot buzzword in the brokerage and investing communities right now. Robinhood was one of the first FinTechs to launch and become successful with the commission-free strategy, and many other lean FinTechs have sprung up to compete, such… Continue reading →
We’ve been working hard backstage to improve what we offer, from the basic watchlist to analytics. We often update our products, too, so they’re at the forefront of best practices and (mostly) bug-free. We’re quite proud of what we’ve created… Continue reading →
We’re always working to improve our products, and until recently, there were many features available on our desktop site that were not available on the mobile platform. To be honest, it was a bit lacking in functions outside the watchlist…. Continue reading →
April Fools Day was this week. Our Chief Editor dropped the ball and forgot it was April Fools Day, so we didn’t have any funny content releases yesterday. Or he just doesn’t like pranks and didn’t want to remind anyone…. Continue reading →
We have been exhibiting at the Master Investor Show in London for the last 3 years. We thought we’d share with you why we attend these kinds of events and what they mean to us. We also thought we’d give… Continue reading →
Disclaimer: in no way were any developers harmed in the process of researching this article. Some days they are trying to squeeze ridiculous amounts of money out of you. Other days, they are your older, protective siblings solving your problems… Continue reading →
There are three sources of cash for startups: customer money, investor money, and government money. The first one comes from many individuals or clients in small payments, the second tends to come in larger payments but from fewer individuals, and… Continue reading →
Apart from democratising access to financial news and content, we are now launching a premium version whereby users have access to all the information they need without the advertising and clutter. Moreover, users will be able to benefit from content… Continue reading →
The combination of detailed independent research and up-to-the-minute tailored news coverage provides a powerful tool for investors and industry professionals. We are glad to announce that we have signed up Smartkarma, the global investment research network, as a client… Continue reading →
Note: We are not tax advisors, and you should refer to your financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Governments are keen to bolster their economies, and one of the most effective ways to build up a strong economy is… Continue reading →
We are glad to have RequirementOne, a leading end-to-end compliance RegTech platform, as a partner. RequirementOne is using CityFALCON’s technology to keep clients updated in real time about the latest financial news that could potentially impact their compliance environment. “CityFALCON’s… Continue reading →
You must be wondering what a baseball hit has to do with a company’s valuation but this is the first thing I let most of our investors know – we are going for a home run even if it means… Continue reading →
The world today is highly interconnected, and what happens across the globe may eventually affect investors and consumers at home. Supply chains are long, multinational corporations invest and operate in far-flung locales, and modern telecommunications technology allows us to see… Continue reading →
Interest rates are a prime factor in any borrowing decision, and modern financial capitalism encourages responsible borrowing for the expansion of businesses and consumerism. That means interest rates affect everything across the economy, and the prices of assets are no… Continue reading →
Raiffeisen Bank is a lead corporate and investment bank in Austria and has retail and other banking operations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) markets. The bank has been working closing with FinTech start-ups to improve its offerings to clients…. Continue reading →
Goldex, the first smart trading technology platform allowing retail customers to invest in physical gold, today announced its partnership with CityFALCON – a leading curated financial news service platform. The recently launched Goldex start-up is using CityFALCON’s technology to keep… Continue reading →
I recently gave a TEDx speech in Portugal on the topics of FinTech and how AI, ML, and society are changing the financial world. I only had a short 10 minutes to speak, so here I will flesh out the… Continue reading →
In the last article, we explored how cryptocurrency exchanges and traditional stock exchanges differ. The FinTech world is not limited to cryptocurrency, though, and plenty of other concepts and processes in finance has been digitised and provided by FinTech firms…. Continue reading →
The world’s major stock exchanges have been at the forefront of technology for decades, largely because of the massive potential for technological leverage and the astronomical amounts of capital and money at play. Recently, global exchanges have undergone a period… Continue reading →
This post is inspired by the presentation by Kaushik Punjabi at London Value Investing Club. The content of the post however is the view of the author. We always hear we should start to save for retirement early. We should reinvest our dividends… Continue reading →
For those in the AI community in London, David White doesn’t need much introduction. He co-founded Kusiri which was acquired by PWC in 2015. Given his passion for data and AI, he co-founded Import.io where he also served as the… Continue reading →
You might see headlines such as a fund or a company has announced a 1000% dividend or also how some funds and smart managers only invest in dividend-paying stocks. In this article, we cover the basics around dividends and whether… Continue reading →
If you have ever received any income, you are at least somewhat familiar with taxes. Many people who hold salaried, full-time jobs as their sole source of income may simply know they pay taxes on their income and at the… Continue reading →
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Even if the fervour has died down from its heights of Winter 2017-2018, the technology itself is still developing and will continue to do so. Bitcoin futures launched in December 2017 in the United States… Continue reading →
In this final instalment of our series of posts (see the earlier posts here – Part I- Introduction to ETFs, Mutual Funds, REITs, ETNs , Part II- All you need to know about REITs, ETNs), we will assume you have decided to… Continue reading →
While we termed REITs as funds, technically they do not have the term “fund” in the name. Either way, they are still pools of assets to help investors gain exposure to otherwise inaccessible assets. In this case, the asset class… Continue reading →
MFs, ETFs, REITs, ETNs. Four acronyms many investors may be familiar with, and in their expanded form, they are familiar to many members of the noninvesting public. Mutual funds, born in their modern form in the early 20th century, enable… Continue reading →
Daring. This is how most of the people would describe concentrated value investing. Getting head to head with high-speed rail could certainly be thrilling and exciting, but in modern financial markets where everything is decided in a brink of a… Continue reading →
CityFALCON’s goal is to provide our users with digestible data to inform investment decisions. For those who are beginning their journey into value investing, we would like to extend our welcome by helping you start off in the right direction…. Continue reading →
The term cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm. There are plenty of articles, and office watercooler gatherings around the globe are buzzing with crypto-this and crypto-that. It is the “next big thing”. The recent spectacular rise in several currencies’… Continue reading →
We, humans, are social creatures by nature. Our banding together and sharing of information has catapulted us from cavemen to spacefarers in just a few millennia. Society and human contact are essential to our success. But, as with anything, there… Continue reading →
2017 was a wild year. The inauguration of Donald Trump, the Brexit impasse and negotiations, possible far-right populist victories in European elections, the threat of nuclear war in East Asia, separatist movements within the EU, the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies… Continue reading →
Many investors, old and new alike, suggest that you stay away from bubbles. And if you have long-term capital appreciation interests in mind, then it is definitely advisable to avoid them. But if you are willing to trade on the… Continue reading →
We’ve written about the differences between investing and trading before – Difference Between Stock Market Investing and Trading – Don’t Mix Up the Strategies. These two strategies sound similar, but they have very different foundations and philosophies. Here, we will… Continue reading →
Back in 1999, I was in my final year of graduate school in finance and economics. Most of the students in my class and/or their families were involved in the Indian stock markets. The game was simple – apply for… Continue reading →
Most people around the world view education as a means to a prosperous life. When reliable manufacturing and physical labour jobs were a staple of Western, industrial economies, tertiary education was considered for the elites only. Costs were relatively low,… Continue reading →
This year marks the 8th year of the bull run which started in March 2009. It’s a cycle which has shown resilience against all odds and propelled the index higher by 240%. In fact, untoward incidents that were expected to… Continue reading →
We’ve written about cryptocurrencies (CCs) before at CityFALCON, and that piece was largely focused on the technological aspects of them and how they can be related to real commerce and trade. In another article, we wrote about Initial Coin Offerings… Continue reading →
For decades, we have listened to a one-way radio to get our daily dose of news and music. Spotify came along and redefined the whole experience of consuming music. And now, we, at CityFALCON, are changing your consumption experience for… Continue reading →
Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide Financial, Royal Bank of Scotland, Wachovia, Lloyds. Are these names familiar? They all suffered major upheaval or failure during the 2008 Financial Crisis, most of them being acquired… Continue reading →
Growing up in India, most of us have been fascinated with Switzerland – not only for chocolates, cheeses, and politicians hiding money but also for the song and dance sequences in the Bollywood movies. I’ve spent a lot of time… Continue reading →
CityFALCON, the London-based FinTech company, has raised more than £550K on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Their campaign was oversubscribed at more than 350% and includes investors from several banks and financial institutions. The company has now raised a total of… Continue reading →
The world has always been an uncertain place. That is the reason for the fundamental risk-reward balance in finance. The contemporary world offers unprecedented access to information to unprecedented numbers of people across the globe. Anyone with an Internet connection… Continue reading →
We talk a lot about how machines are being used more and more in finance. This is especially important in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Algorithmic Trading or algo-trading (AT). There is simply no way for humans to compete on these… Continue reading →
Wherever money is involved, there is innovation. That is no different for blockchain technology. The popular transaction-tracking technology, which we have written on before here, is now being applied in a way to raise funds for a venture. Part crowdfunding,… Continue reading →
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