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In today’s financial environment, characterised by rising interest rates, high inflation, and a volatile stock market, investors and wealth managers face challenging market conditions. One way to tackle these challenges is to equip oneself with access to the right data. "In our world and for our clients, it's not always about having access to ALL data, but having access to the right data at every given moment," says Infront Head of Feed Solutions, Annika Norberg

After several years of rising prices, financial markets have become more uncertain recently. Gains on European stock exchanges have been minimal since the start of 2022. Interest rate hikes, inflation announcements, and statistics showing that bankruptcies are at an eight-year high in the European Union, have shaped economies and left their mark on stock prices. Meanwhile, there are companies and entire industries that have performed strongly during this period.
 

This underscores the important role that information – about macroeconomic indicators, foreign exchange, interest rates, and company-specific information, among other things – plays when investors and managers need to make well-informed decisions in turbulent markets.
 

As European leaders in financial market data solutions, this is something Infront is focused on more than ever with the recent launch of our Data Manager API.

Through Data Manager API, data from millions of instruments, stock exchange data from hundreds of exchanges, fund information from hundreds of asset managers, and financial information about thousands of companies are provided. Custom data packages can also be created as needed. The API harmonizes various types of data, including price, news, history, ESG and much more.
 

This provides actors such as wealth managers, banks, brokers, and family offices, as well as fintech and software providers, access to a comprehensive and high-quality data catalogue, simplified data on-boarding, access and customization of data, and tailored solutions.
 

Annika emphasises that the offering is not about more data for its own sake, but the ability to analyse and review the right high-quality data from the flood of information available, and to make it easily accessible and tailored to the needs of our clients.
 

"We have built a rich library of both local and global content over the years that gives our customers a unique mix and the ability to consume the 'right' data instead of being offered an unedited content database." It's not always about having access to all data, but having access to the right data at every given moment.
 

Infront is able to open up new opportunities to offer customers access to our global content not only within Infront data display terminals, but also by making this content available to those who wish to build their own solutions and those in need of market data and content for other solutions.
 

Annika likens this offering to how a news editorial team constantly has to evaluate the value of all the information they handle. "You can see us as the editor who reviews and evaluates the content we deliver, so it is always relevant to our customers."
 

As well as having one of the largest databases of financial information in Europe with over 110,000 funds, having our own local news agencies in Sweden and Norway and a quantitative data team that offers unique content in regulatory data feeds also means Infront can offer specific, enriched data with added value for customers.

 

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