Worldlink Launches the UK's First Free Real-Time Financial Information Service to the General Public
LONDON, June 7, 2010-- Worldlink, the owner of the UK and US patent for the transmission of
profiled real-time data to mobile devices, is making its imobilemarkets
financial service product available FREE from today. That means that anyone
interested in monitoring their investments will have the same information
available to them as a City trader. This will allow them to make informed
investment decisions, whether they are on the move or sitting at their desk.
To take advantage of this FREE service, which is automatically uploaded
to both a customer's mobile and desktop, subscribers have to provide their
name and create a password. The whole process is concluded in seconds and
information such as a person's address is not required.
In this time of increasing financial volatility, even retail investors,
want to keep up to speed with what is happening in the financial markets and
until now, they have had to rely on services which are at least 15 minutes
delayed. As we have seen in recent months, minutes, even seconds, can see
massive swings in stock markets and relying on a delayed service could mean
the difference between making and losing money.
Investors are also becoming more sophisticated trading Spread, Contracts
for Difference and Currencies. This demands access to real-time information
so that money can be made whether you are travelling on the train or having
lunch.
The imobilemarkets service provides the following:
- Stock Markets - real-time share information so that customers can watch
share prices change in real-time across the London Stock Exchange,
Turquoise, AIM and Plus markets
- Foreign Exchange - real-time information on a wide range of currency
pairings
- Commodities - pricing information on the most popular currencies traded
- Watchlists - where you can track the performance of your own share
portfolio
- News - Stock market, economic and company information can be tracked in
real-time so you can find out what news and how the news affects the
stock market
- Charts - customers can track the historic performance of share for
example, over a five year period
The imobilemarkets product also allows you to trade via the service. Once
a customer subscribes, they can take advantage of the "Broker Button" which
is a telephone number linked directly to Worldlink's share dealing service so
shares can be bought and sold wherever a customer happens to be.
Neil Riches, Managing Director and Founder of Worldlink commented: "We
are delighted to be able to offer customers free real-time financial
information. For too long, those people who want access to real-time
information have had to satisfy themselves with delayed information which is
not reliable enough when making important investment decisions. A lot can
happen in fifteen minutes in the stock market.
"The only other alternative to delayed information is real-time
information which in some cases can cost hundreds, if not thousands of pounds
for people to use. What Worldlink is doing by offering its service for free
is democratising the availability of financial information and putting the
most up to date information in the hands of the retail investors so that they
can make informed investment decisions. Worldlink is able to do this because
we own the patent to transmit profiled real-time information to mobiles and
constructing the technology to bring the imobilemarkets product to market has
been ten years in the making."
For those people who want to register for the free service, go to http://worldlink.worldlink-shop.com or simply text 'APP [space] WOR' to
'88833' from your mobile. [space] means enter a space between the words.
About Worldlink
Worldlink Group plc is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Its
technology partner is Interactive Data Managed Solutions and Worldlink
obtains actual feeds from the London Stock Exchange, Turquoise and Plus
Markets. Its media partners, who operate the Worldlink imobilemarkets service
under their own brand name include the Daily Express and ShareCrazy.
Source: Worldlink Group
For further information, please contact: Neil Riches, Managing Director, Worldlink Group plc: +44(0)7736-670055; Simon Robinson, Director of Media, Worldlink Group plc: +44(0)7593-340107