About Infront
Infront provides financial information and trading solutions for the financial players in Europe.
Infront develops cutting edge technology for both trading systems and the distribution of real-time market data. Leading sell side and buy side players use The Online Trader for cost efficient electronic trading on European and North American exchanges. Infront’s customers rapidly deploy solutions for their clients and for in-house use because of the solution’s integration flexibility, internet based data distribution and straightforward user administration system.
Infront, establised in 1998, is an independent, privately owned company with offices in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm. With more than 75 employees Infront is one of the strongest players in the Nordic market. Infront owns News Agency Direkt in Sweden and Denmark in order to provide the best financial news services to financial professionals.
Infront is owned by its employees and Kistefos Venture Capital. For the last few years Infront has been listed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in Norway and Fast 500 EMEA.
News Agency Direkt
News Agency Direkt is Sweden’s foremost source of financial news and has been ranked the
number one news agency for the past 13 years. It has Sweden’s largest editorial staff for real-time coverage of market-moving news in the Nordic equity, fixed income and foreign exchange markets.
Direkts reporters are well initiated and focused on delivering real-time, correct and well substantiated news to the market. Typical customers are banks, brokers, fund managers, institutional investors, corporations and media.
News Agency Direkt has had a newswire service in Denmark since 2005.
Direkt provides the SME Direkt forecast service that continuously compiles earnings estimates for listed companies.
Founders of Infront
Kristian Nesbak, Infront CEO, started Falcon in 1986, one of the largest vendors of real-time information systems in the Nordic region. In 1994, Falcon was purchased by Reuters and Nesbak became responsible for their internet products in the Nordic countries.
Morten Lindeman was the server and backbone designer for Reuters First, and in 1998 Nesbak and Lindeman left Reuters to start Infront.