User:Dr.RebeccaHarding/sandbox/invstr

Description
invstr is a mobile social network providing access to financial information and promoting financial education for aspiring, casual and professional investors. It allows its users to play the market, learn by accessing in-depth financial information and share opinions with other members of the community. The app delivers crowd-sourced market predictions and sentiment, news and commentaries from leading financial media publishers, research reports, delayed and live market data on stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities.

History
invstr was founded in February 2013 by Kerim Derhalli with offices in London and Istanbul. Head-quartered in London and with a development office in Istanbul, invstr employs 20 people and a number of consultants with strategic, technological, operational, financial and marketing expertise. Developing the app came from the idea that financial markets should be accessible to the general public and existing barriers to entry should be removed to create a fairer and sustainable banking system. invstr aims to promote financial education by reconnecting society with finance in a fun, accessible and affordable way. The invstr app launched on iOS, Android, Blackberry and Kindle Fire in December 2014 and has since been downloaded more than 80,000 times globally (Q1, 2015).

In 2015, the company partnered with banks, brokers, newswires and other publishers including Dow Jones, Financial Times, Alliance News, Public Technologies, Interactive Data, Edison Research, Mergent INC., XTF and more than 45 stock exchanges to offer access to high quality and affordable financial information to the individual consumer. The app currently provides access to financial instruments covering all asset classes, millions of news articles and market commentaries from multiple newswires, corporate and macro calendar events and research reports on over 60,000 companies around the world. invstr is free to download, though users are able to pay for premium content and game enhancements on a pay as you go basis.

How it works
The app has been designed to demystify the financial markets. It uses gamification to create a fun learning experience and instantly provides access to all the resources that people might need to understand the financial markets. By making it a social experience, invstr provides their members with the ability to learn and share insights with each other. Users can play, learn and share their views by instantly making predictions on the invstr game, keeping up to date with market data and news, and joining topic discussions in a social network that is open to professionals, independent investors and students alike. In 2015, invstr also began to help organisations such as banks, asset managers, wealth managers, exchanges and media publishers broaden their outreach by offering customised mobile, social and cloud based technology solutions.

Articles:
CNBC: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000385159

The Banker: http://www.thebanker.com/Techvision/Invstr-democratises-investment-

Telegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11646668/Fin

Banking Technology: http://www.bankingtech.com/256301/finance-made-social/

Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/12/10/deutsche-bank-vet-launchs-

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/nyregion/an-app-invstr-is-a-financial-

New York Post: http://nypost.com/2015/02/16/app-lets-armchair-investors-test-their-chops/

Yahoo! Finance: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/trading-like-a-wall-street-pro-is-getting-

WSJ Live: http://www.wsj.com/video/invstr-app-that-brings-retail-to-investors/C70392DC-

Category:Finance Category:Fintech