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Ruzbeh Bacha

Celebrating 10 Years of CityFALCON: A FinTech Startup Journey of Innovation, Challenges, Pivots, and Future Horizons

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Introduction It’s been 10 rewarding years since I launched the company from my tiny London bedroom in a shared apartment in June 2014. As expected, there have been many ups and downs. My goal of building a cash-flow-positive sustainable business… 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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

FinTech Firms Collaborate – CityFALCON Partners with RequirementOne on RegTech Solutions

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 →

Why We Are Valuing CityFALCON’s Crowdfunding Round in Nov 2018 at £5.8m?

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 →

Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Investing Trends & Principles Going Mainstream

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 →

How Rising Interest Rates will Affect Stock, Bond, Crypto and Other Markets

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 Signs up CityFALCON to Pilot Personalised Financial Content in CEE Markets

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 →

FinTech Firms Collaborate – CityFALCON Partners with Goldex

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 →

The future of Finance with FinTech, Crypto and AI – TEDx

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 →

How FinTech Will Change Financial Markets, from Fundraising to Settlement and Regulation

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 →

What Stock Exchanges can learn from Crypto Exchanges?

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 →

The Power of Financial Compounding Explained in Seven Graphs

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 →

Serial entrepreneur and AI evangelist David White joins CityFALCON’s advisory board

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 →

When and Why Stock Investing for Dividends may not be Profitable

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 →

Tax Implications to watch out for while Trading and Investing in the Stock Markets

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 →

Top Websites for Crypto, Bitcoin, and ICO News, Research, and Analysis

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 →

ETFs, Mutual Funds – Everything You Need To Know

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 →

REITs, ETNs – All You Need To Know

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 →

An Introduction to Mutual Funds, ETFs, REITs, ETNs

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 →

10 Questions About Value Investing in Stocks And Shares That Most Beginners Ask

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 →

What 400 Year History Tells Us About Emerging Asset Classes Including Cryptos

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 →

Must Know Cryptocurrency Terminology: Shorthand & Slang Used by Community

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 →

The Biggest Reason Why People Lose Money in Stock Markets & Cryptocurrencies

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 →

2018 Stock Market Predictions by 10+ Investment Banks

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 →

How to Make Money in a Stock Market and Cryptocurrency Bubble?

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 →

Fundamental vs Technical Analysis for Stock Market Investing and Trading

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 →

Bitcoin Price Will Go To Zero As Bitcoin Will Struggle To Remain The Dominant Cryptocurrency

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 →

Student Loan Debt – the New Mortgage Crisis in 2018?

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 →

The Bull Market Roars on, but it’s Time to Saddle up

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 →

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