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| Available in | 24 languages |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | |
| Key people | Dror Efrat (Co-founder & CEO) |
| Products | Financial information |
| Employees | 300 (2019) [1] |
| URL | investing |
| Launched | 2007 [2] |
| Current status | Active |
Investing.com is a financial platform and news website; one of the top three global financial websites in the world. [3] It offers market quotes, [4] information about stocks, futures, options, [5] analysis, commodities, and an economic calendar.
Founded in 2007 as Forexpros, the portal offered forex analysis, a broker directory, and a discussion forum in English, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. [6] During 2008–2009, more editions were added, and the platform expanded its offering from Forex data to encompass other financial instruments.
The company purchased their current domain, Investing.com, for $2.45 million at the end of 2012 [7] in one of the most expensive domain deals in history. [8] [9] [10]
Investing.com's Android app was launched in September 2013, [11] while an iOS version of the app was launched a year later. [11] [12] [13] Over time, it added additional localized editions [14] [15] and services. [16] [17] Investing.com launched a new version of their cryptocurrency app in 2017. [18]
In February 2021, it was ranked as the 194th most popular website in the world, according to Alexa. [19] It has four offices worldwide and 300 employees (as of 2019), [20] and is composed of 33 editions in 24 languages. [21]
In April 2021, Globes reported the sale of the company for 500 million dollars. [22]
Investing.com has launched a platform called InvestingPro which provides exclusive data, professional tools, custom charts and professional-grade. It is ad-free and can access up to 1000+ fundamental and technical metrics.
Fidelity Investments, commonly referred to as Fidelity, earlier as Fidelity Management & Research or FMR, is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was established in 1946 and is one of the largest asset managers in the world with $4.3 trillion in assets under management, and, as of December 2022, their assets under administration amount to $10.3 trillion. Fidelity Investments operates a brokerage firm, manages a large family of mutual funds, provides fund distribution and investment advice, retirement services, index funds, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, asset custody, and life insurance.
eToro is a social trading and multi-asset investment company that focuses on providing financial services. Its headquarters are located in Central Israel, and the company has registered offices in Cyprus, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
63 Moons Technologies Limited, formerly Financial Technologies (India) Limited until 2016, is an Indian company which provides technology ventures, financial platforms and solutions for creating digital markets and marketplaces. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India. It was formed in 1988 and funded by Jignesh Shah. The company offers technology intellectual property to create and trade on financial markets. It had its first IPO in 1995. The company introduced its first commodity derivatives trading platform, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) in 2003. FTIL has divested of its domestic and international ventures.
Mark Thomas Williams is an academic, financial author and risk management expert. He is a faculty member in the Finance Department at Boston University Questrom School of Business where he teaches courses in banking, capital markets and FinTech. In 2018, he was awarded the James E. Freeman Lecturer in Management Chair.
Andreessen Horowitz is a private American venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. As of April 2023, Andreessen Horowitz ranks first on the list of venture capital firms by assets under management.
Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Coinbase is a distributed company; all employees operate via remote work. It is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States in terms of trading volume. The company was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. In May 2020, Coinbase announced it would shut its San Francisco, California, headquarters and change operations to remote-first, part of a wave of several major tech companies closing headquarters in San Francisco in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plus500 is a global fintech firm providing online trading services in contracts for difference (CFDs), share dealing, futures trading and options on futures. The company has subsidiaries in the UK, Cyprus, Australia, Israel, Seychelles, Singapore, Bulgaria, Estonia, the United States and Japan. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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Circle began as a peer-to-peer payments technology company that now manages stablecoin USDC, a cryptocurrency the value of which is pegged to the U.S. dollar. It was founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville in October 2013. Circle is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. USDC, the second largest stablecoin worldwide, is designed to hold at or near a stable price of $1. The majority of its stablecoin collateral is held in short-term U.S. government securities.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It operates an electronic trading platform that facilitates commission-free trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies as well as individual retirement accounts via a mobile app introduced in March 2015. Robinhood is a FINRA-regulated broker-dealer, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. The company's revenue comes from three main sources: interest earned on customers' cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders and margin lending. As of March 2022, Robinhood had 22.8 million funded accounts and 15.9 million monthly active users. In April 2022, Robinhood rolled out a cryptocurrency wallet to more than 2 million users.
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Revolut is a global neobank and financial technology company that offers banking services. Headquartered in London, it was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko. It offers accounts featuring currency exchange, debit cards, virtual cards, Apple Pay, interest-bearing "vaults", stock trading, crypto, commodities, and other services.
Wealthsimple Inc. is a Canadian online investment management service. The firm was founded in September 2014 by Michael Katchen, Brett Huneycutt, Som Seif, and Rudy Adler and is based in Toronto. As of January 2024, the firm holds over C$30 billion in assets under management. It is primarily owned by Power Corporation indirectly at 54.2% through investments made through their holdings in Power Financial, IGM Financial and Portag3.
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