afraccess; the Fin Review’s Web 2.0 play? May 31, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : web, finance , trackbackBetween studying a Diploma of Financial Markets, being addicted to Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch, having a keen interest in investing and consulting at some of the world’s biggest investment banks I’m quite keen to see how ‘Web 2.0′ trends will affect the intersection of finance and technology. Google Finance recently launched to challenge the most popular incumbent, Yahoo! Finance. It came to my attention this morning that the Australian Financial Review have a project known as afraccess in the pipeline. As far as I can glean from the promotional video (despite its somewhat cheesy acting) it will be a comprehensive analysis, research and portfolio tracking tool. Its nothing that cannot already be found at a smaller scale at any number of online brokers but the scope of what they are promising is quite impressive. The tool will also include residential and commercial property analysis tools.
I look forward seeing it launch; hopefully with cross-platform support (it vaguely looks like Flash in the video) and at a relatively affordable price. I hope they also take a page out of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s book and provide RSS feeds for prices (delayed I would gather), daily portfolio performance, market news, etc.
Meanwhile, Matt blogs about what makes a bank cool from a technology point of view. No mention of Rails though?!
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when will afraccess be launched
It was launched quite a while ago… http://www.afraccess.com.au . I’ve been meaning to blog about it, as it is a little clunky in my opinon.