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Is Institutional Finance’s Desktop Dictatorship Coming to an End?

越来越多的应用程序和初创公司正在寻找从他们的桌面中撤出机构投资者的方法。亚博赞助欧冠

For years, financial technology has lagged developments in the consumer field, especially in what might be loosely termed “the platform game.” Even as the reign of mobile has taken hold in the consumer technology world, fintech innovations continue to be delivered to professional investors through desktop apps and channels. Might that be finally changing?

40岁的Vivek Nasta于2010年初被评为汤森路透社的全球手机负责人,继于诺基亚各种业务开发角色的半十年。他的任务基本上是让金融数据庞然大物更加移动敏感。汤姆森路透和其他统治金融数据行业的巨人,彭博,致力于在过去五年左右或在过去五年左右建立移动应用程序和对其核心服务的调整。限制是,在大多数情况下,投资者只要他们在桌面终端注册桌面终端的贵重订阅中,投资者只能在其不受约束的丰富性中访问这些移动产品。大多数已建立的金融数据公司提供低成本的研究和筛选应用程序,未经桌面订阅。但它们提供了更像桌面的应用程序的内容深度。

In the world of the established financial data firms, mobile services exist to funnel money toward “the desktop dictatorship,” Nasta contends. “But to do mobile right, you have to do it for the device mobile users are on — you can’t reverse-engineer a product off a core desktop offering.” Desktop subscriptions are so valuable and the investments sunk into them so considerable, he adds, that none of the financial data incumbents will ever be able to truly develop a “mobile-first” mentality.

After two years of mounting frustration, Nasta quit Thomson Reuters in 2012. Now he’s at the helm of a company which, he hopes, can tap in to the thirst of financial professionals for a work experience that better reflects the technologies and habits of their lives outside of work.侦察兵金融is a mobile-only app that gives fundamental investors access to research, filings, pricing, presentations and operational data such as revenue and modeling metrics for the 6,000-odd U.S.-listed equities and ADRs. The app launched last week. Nasta and his handful of employees, who have been working together since the beginning of the year, are so focused on mobile that, he says, “we didn’t even have a web site until a few weeks ago. We’re not mobile-first — we’re mobile-only.”

这是一个开放的问题,有意义的工作金融专业人士实际上可以在移动设备上做多少。销售和研究中交易员和交易书桌接近的贸易商和贸易售后办公桌,着名使用多个监视器,使用无数闪烁的窗户和屏幕一次运行。交易和资本市场的工作流程有许多活动部分,从研究和想法生成到执行,订单管理,预订和前提处理以及在这些元素周围进行的许多电子邮件和即时消息对话。这就是为什么侦察金融专注于对基础,长期股票投资者的关注。Nasta说:“我们对高频交易员对高频交易员的不感兴趣”,或者那里的时间短,Nasta说。“我们在思想家之后。这些人民专注于主题,阅读和基本信息。“

These are early days for Scout Finance, which received seed capital from杰夫帕克是第一次致电公司和绿色遮阳篷资本的传奇创始人。该公司的网站为来自CNBC的Guy Adami的应用程序提供了一种热情的应用程序 - “它是真实的”,强调Nasta - 但仍有长期的用户热情仍然被证明。更多成熟的初创企业攻击市场的其他部分的工作流程已经令人信服地证明了移动式第一方法的持久优势。罗宾时期的佣金移动交易应用程序自去年年底推出以来,已成为融资世界的失控成功。11月,该公司宣布了一系列搭配现有的研究和贸易服务,它希望,进一步丰富用户的交易体验。专注于财务的消息传递启动交响乐通讯服务,其支持者包括Alphabet, Google’s renamed parent company那has already amassed more than $160 million in funding in a little over a year; a core part of CEO David Gurle’s pitch is that Symphony’s messaging service can operate seamlessly across multiple platforms, with a special emphasis on mobile functionality.

在过去的二十年中,彭森伯格 - 在较小程度上,汤森路透社 - 在专业投资者的金融数据市场上保持了坚定的锁定。在金融中完成的东西意味着在桌面上完成的东西 - 或者谨慎地支付特权,以解决与桌面订阅相关的移动应用程序。抢劫,侦察兵金融和交响曲等初创企业每次集中在金融专业人员的日常工作流程中的离散功能:交易和执行,研究和想法生成和消息传递。将所有这些工具放在一起,突然间,许多专业投资者都可以通过移动应用程序完成他们的大部分工作。

这不一定代表对财务数据的存在威胁 - 现在不是目前的。“我们并不试图带走桌面,”Nasta坚持。“这将永远存在。”然而,是否会在桌面前面支付客户,仍有待观察。与此同时,体制金融的移动第一运动似乎可能会收集步伐。

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