Financial news

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) powering enterprise productivity, has joined forces with Dow Jones to deliver news, unique insights and expert analysis directly to desktops at major banks and asset and wealth management firms.

The collaboration provides financial firms and professional subscribers with access to Dow Jones Newswires. They can obtain market-moving news, real-time alerts, and editor-curated top stories. All this content is available within the OpenFin Workspace platform.

Premium, real-time services from Dow Jones also incorporate content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily. This content will seamlessly integrate with other applications and information sources. As a result, it offers a personalised and contextualised market perspective. Consequently, this integration accelerates financial decision-making.

Joe Cappitelli, general manager at Dow Jones Newswires, commented: “Institutional investors and wealth managers need trusted, best-in-class content to capitalize on breaking news and gain a competitive advantage.

“By partnering with OpenFin, we are able to integrate our market-moving news, data and insights directly into our customers’ personal workspace. This enhances the user experience and provides them with the context to make smarter, faster trading decisions and build their book of business.”

OpenFin Workspace is driving the future of digital experiences for financial firms, featuring sophisticated windowing, advanced search capabilities, actionable notifications, as well as effortless application discovery.

The OpenFin Workspace platform

The platform’s open architecture allows financial institutions to easily design Workspaces. These Workspaces incorporate top-tier apps and content from various providers.

This method expands the reach and impact for content providers and optimises return on investment for financial institutions. Additionally, it significantly enhances productivity for end-users. Currently, more than 3,800 banks, wealth and asset management firms across more than 60 countries use the software.

“With this new collaboration, Dow Jones Newswires can be embedded in an end user’s workflow, fully integrated with all the other apps they use,” said Adam Toms, OpenFin COO and CEO Europe. “We’re delighted to work with Dow Jones and its family of premium, trusted brands to make this rich, high-value content available to OpenFin Workspace customers.”