How We Raised £1.65m In Spite of Market Turmoil

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2022 is giving 2020 a run for its money: Russia invaded Ukraine and the spillover is wreaking havoc in markets and geopolitics; Zero-Covid policies in China continue to crush the global supply chain; inflation is pressuring central banks to raise… Continue Reading →

CityFALCON at Master Investor Show 2024 in London

Master Investor Show 2024 CityFALCON has been one of the partners of the MIS event for several years and we are excited to attend the same on 9th Mar 2024.  We’ll be at booth M56 showcasing our latest AI-powered tools… Continue Reading →

DCSC delivers company-sector relevance scores and powers smart portfolios

We have launched our new AI-powered sector classification system DCSC (www.dcsc.ai ) to help users build smart portfolios, research industries, and build better knowledge management systems. Existing industry classification systems (either proprietary or government) were designed for slow economic and… Continue Reading →

Why Filings and IR documents are so important for your portfolio and how to track them

In this article, we will explore why studying regulatory filings and corporate disclosures are critical for informed investment decisions. We’ll highlight key filing types like 10-Ks, 10-Qs and 8-Ks and their significance. Using real examples, we’ll show how filings provide… Continue Reading →

AI at CityFALCON: Personalised Push Notifications, Financial Content Translation, and More

Last quarter, our team was busy adding more AI-powered features for financial intelligence and improving user experience. These improvements and features include: Personalised, AI-driven push notifications Translation to English from 35 languages Rebranding to CityFALCON.ai (read full blog) Better watchlist… Continue Reading →

How to Buy Undervalued Stocks, Step Three: Just do it!

The basic idea behind making money with stocks is simple. This is how Joel Greenblatt, one of the best modern value investors, describes it in the Big Secret for the Small Investor: “The big secret to investing is to figure… Continue Reading →

CityFALCON.com Transforms into CityFALCON.ai for (Generative) AI-powered Investing and Experiences

Introduction: At CityFalcon, our mission is to democratise access to financial intelligence, from market news and analytics around the world to education and new and better tools for investors, traders, and enterprises. We’ve done this by leveraging Natural language Processing… Continue Reading →

How will Generative AI such as ChatGPT affect the financial markets?

The release of ChatGPT and Bing’s incorporation of it has led to a series of high-profile AI releases. While the singularity-precipitating moment of AGI (artificial general intelligence) is not upon us quite yet, generative AI and these Turing-test-acing chatbots will… Continue Reading →

How to Buy Undervalued Stocks, Step Two: Find the Value

Figuring out what you pay for a public company was the easy part – step one. Nevertheless, going through the deep meaning of market capitalization first was crucial for realising that you are buying a portion of a business and… Continue Reading →

How to Buy Undervalued and Avoid Overvalued Stocks: Step One

Some people must have hated 2022 when they realised that “stonks go up!” is not always the case. Regardless of the pain, one day this experience will be appreciated as a great learning moment, for those that stay in the… Continue Reading →

10 Best Blogs for Value Investing + 1 Event

We analysed blogs for value investors and these are our Top 10, the best places to get more information and ideas for value investing, however rare it is becoming! 1. Chai with Pabrai Mohnish Pabrai is a value investor, well known… Continue Reading →

Use Real Time Insider Transactions Activity to Decipher Markets Better

Note: Retrieving the data from the regulatory filings is an ongoing process at the time of this publication. We estimate the ~5 million filings to be fully processed in a couple of weeks. Until then, please be aware that some… Continue Reading →

Updates in 2021-2022 – Sentiment, Speed, New Clients, Fundraise

It is time for another update on the CityFALCON journey. We had an outstanding year with new features, clients, and the development of our vision. £1.65m Seedrs equity crowdfunding round with a client, a fund, and a private company, among… Continue Reading →

The Prices of Penny Stocks & Cryptos Can Be Deceptive

Some people only look at the current prices of stocks and choose whether to invest or not. While the price is important, it is not the only item of importance. Unfortunately, investing in low priced stocks just because they are… Continue Reading →

Q1 2021 – More Languages, ESG, Investor Relations Docs, Stock Charts & More

Hello again Falcon Readers! We are happy to have completed another successful quarter after a strong year (notwithstanding the Covid chaos). Our dream to expand beyond English has blossomed further than ever, and our previous technological development now supports new… Continue Reading →

Q4 2020 Updates – Sentiment, Future Fund, Layouts, Language Expansion

At CityFALCON, we closed 2020 on a strong note, despite the upheaval of the year. Our last update was way back in September. This one details what we’ve done since then.  Tap the links at the beginning of each summary… Continue Reading →

Planning to Buy Bitcoin or Cryptocurrencies in 2021? You Cannot Afford to Ignore These 7 Points

This post is not about whether or not you should buy Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.  It’s about what points you should consider before making your buy and sell decisions.  I hope that at the end of reading this post, you… Continue Reading →

An Active Summer 2020 – New Features, New Opportunities

We’re most of the way through the hottest part of the year (for our fellow northern hemispherians), and at CityFALCON we’ve been cooking up many new features and improvements for the platform. Summary A top-up funding round to take advantage… Continue Reading →

Research and Track UK Private Companies on Seedrs, Crowdcube better with CityFALCON

I’ve invested in several companies on Seedrs and Crowdcube, and there are a couple of major challenges I face: I don’t have enough tools and data to conduct my research and due diligence prior to investing in a company, After… Continue Reading →

New API Features for First Half 2020

This year has been exciting in terms of new releases, and the CityFALCON product is really taking shape with analytics, more sources, and more services coming online in the first half of 2020. Many of the API services and features… Continue Reading →

New Web & Mobile Features for First Half 2020

In this post, we will outline the features we’ve released for the consumer side of CityFALCON so far this year. In our 6th year of business, our product is really taking shape for web and mobile app users, and we… Continue Reading →

9 Product and Technology Sins of a Founder Who Learnt to Code

In celebration of our 6th anniversary and as a sort of complement to my article 15 Lessons from 15,000 Hours of FinTech Entrepreneurship, I want to publish some of my biggest mistakes so other entrepreneurs may avoid them.  Editor’s Note:… Continue Reading →

Capital Emotions – Track Sentiment for Financial Content Globally

Today, investors, traders, and businesspeople are starting to realise the importance of qualitative data and the place of alternative data in the capital markets and business operations. Surely quantitative filings and financial analyses are still important, but how assets are… Continue Reading →

Launching AI Grouping of Financial Content in 16 Languages

While most companies aim to monopolise their users’ attention, we at CityFALCON try to reduce the attention burden so users can more efficiently and effectively participate in the markets. Similar Stories Grouping takes us a step in that direction, so… Continue Reading →

Personal Use of Our Real Time Financial News API from $20/month

APIs are a wonder for anyone that wants to automate information processing, as they allow systems to talk to each other and handle all of the data transfer before being loaded into local processing pipelines. Typically, the benefits of high-value… Continue Reading →

Internal Content Indexing NLU Service Now Available on the CityFALCON API

Imagine the scenario: 75,000 documents and tons of news, research, and chat messages to sift, tag, and categorise with no discernible pattern in their sequence. You want to sort them by company and by location, but without the top-level, per-page,… Continue Reading →

What is the VIX and how can you leverage it for stock market trading and investing?

If you’ve been paying any attention to the markets during these turbulent times, it’s likely you’ve encountered references to the VIX, otherwise known as the Volatility Index, or its rather ominous nickname, the ‘fear index’. Given the devastating impact of… Continue Reading →

Track COVID-19 and its Impacts in Real-Time with CityFALCON

From a few thousand cases in East Asia in early January to a global pandemic that’s shut down the world economy in a matter of months, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has indisputably been the focus of attention for individuals, markets,… Continue Reading →

Cut Costs, Save Jobs – Our “Salary Sacrifice to Loan” Scheme to Combat Coronavirus Mayhem

2020 is only in its third month and it’s already been a wild ride. Before the Coronavirus outbreak spread beyond China, the capital markets were already difficult for startups in the earlier stages. Valuations were sky-high – perhaps too high… Continue Reading →

6 reasons (value) investors may want to avoid buying the recent stock market decline

The markets are in chaos approaching full panic as novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, and its fallout rankles markets, disrupts supply chains, and has politicians scrambling to contain the virus and appease the public. The S&P500 is down 10%… Continue Reading →

PopTops of CityFALCON – the most popular topics on our platform

What are the top topics for investors and traders in the financial space? Anyone with a keen interest in finance knows how imperative it is to understand market trends, predict behaviour, and stay updated on the most relevant and trending… Continue Reading →

CityFALCON to Add Trustpilot Content to Alternative Data Coverage

In this Age of the Algorithm and Big Data, everyone is vacuuming up as much data as possible in the belief that more data implies better results. The idea is that the more data we collect and analyse, the clearer… Continue Reading →

How Startups Can Fool Angel, Crowd and P2P Investors to Raise Funding

Most of us have lost money in startups: the asset class is inherently risky, markets are often illiquid, and entrepreneurs are not always straightforward or forthcoming. The owners and founders may manage cash poorly, be grossly negligent in their duties,… Continue Reading →

Why We Are Valuing CityFALCON at £8.5m in our Jan 2020 Crowdfunding Round

What’s a big Cricket shot have to do with a company valuation? One of the first things I tell investors is that we go for the risky, big shots, even if it means there’s a chance of striking out.  … Continue Reading →

Access London Stock Exchange’s RNS Feeds on CityFALCON and via API

We’re out to conquer the world of financial content, and one of the most important pieces of the due diligence puzzle are the company and regulatory filings. Some filings, like annual financial statements and share allocations, are mandatory for all… Continue Reading →

CityFALCON wins six-figure R&D grant from Malta Enterprise, will collaborate with University of Malta

Research and Development (R&D) is the crucible in which companies, including start-ups, discover great ideas and build them into fortunes. This process contributes to building vibrant and sustainable national economies, which transform the standards of living for residents. This summer we… Continue Reading →

Seedrs & WiseAlpha Integrate Financial Content from CityFALCON

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 →

Will Index Funds and ETFs Cause the Next 2008-Style Crash?

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 →

Read the World with CityFALCON’s Translation Feature

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 →

15 Lessons I’ve Learnt From 15,000 Hours of FinTech Entrepreneurship

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 →

Is Investing on eToro any Good?

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 →

CityFALCON to Launch Spotify-like Premium Subscription for Financial Content

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 →

Introducing the New and Improved Mobile Experience 2.0

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 Roundup in Tech and Finance

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 →

100 Reasons Why Stock Market Investors should attend the Master Investor Show in London – and why we are too

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 →

Engaging a Unique Species of Worker, the Software Developer

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 →

CityFALCON to Open an EU HQ in Malta

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 →

CityFALCON Partners with Bloomberg and Fitch to Launch Premium News Service

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 →

CityFALCON Signs up Smartkarma as Client and Partner

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 →

EIS – The Best Tax Relief Scheme for Risk-Taking Investors in the UK?

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 →

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