FinTech Sandbox Teams Up With EDGAR®Online
Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 06, 2016 -- FinTech Sandbox, a nonprofit that helps FinTech startups access data and build products, today announced that EDGAR Online, a leader in helping finance professionals uncover intelligence from SEC filed financial disclosures, will make its streamlined fundamentals, institutional ownership, and insider trade data available to Sandbox residents. Sandbox residents will gain access to this valuable data via EDGAR Online’s configurable and mobile-friendly DataFied API.
FinTech Sandbox facilitates access to financial data and infrastructure for highly qualified FinTech startups. Residents of the Sandbox are expected to collaborate with each other in order to share learning and promote advances that benefit the entire FinTech ecosystem. The six-month program includes:
• A robust set of data feeds and APIs from a wide array of data partners
• Cloud hosting from industry-leading infrastructure partners
• Learning, networking and collaboration opportunities in a dynamic FinTech community
“EDGAR Online has long been a premier resource for investment data derived from SEC filings and disclosure documents,” said Jean Donnelly, Executive Director at FinTech Sandbox. “Adding EDGAR Online as a data partner provides our FinTech entrepreneurs with broader access to SEC-filed data, which our residents use in a number of ways, such as converting this data into useful signals on a company’s history, progress and perhaps a glimpse into its future.”
“We’re demonstrating our support of FinTech Sandbox’s mission to reduce the barriers for FinTech entrepreneurs to access public company data,” said Craig Clay, the Executive Vice President of R. R. Donnelley & Sons EDGAR Online group. “We look forward to engaging with Sandbox residents and helping them introduce further innovation to financial solutions.”
About EDGAR Online’s Data Solutions:
For more than 18 years, EDGAR®Online has been a leader in helping professionals uncover intelligence from SEC filed financial disclosures, offering distribution of company data and public filings for equities, mutual funds and other publicly traded assets through online subscriptions and data licenses. Our new DataFied API is advancing how financial data is consumed, delivered and analyzed and is transforming data points into constructive, valuable information. You can now access SEC filings through our DataFied API.
About FinTech Sandbox
FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit founded to promote financial technology innovation globally by providing free access to critical data and resources to FinTech entrepreneurs and startups. Sponsors include Fidelity Investments, F-Prime Capital, Thomson Reuters, Silicon Valley Bank, Amazon Web Services, Intel, SIX Financial Information, Goodwin Procter, and .406 Ventures. For more information, please visit http://www.FinTechsandbox.org and https://twitter.com/FinTechSandbox.
©2016 EDGAR®Online, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. EDGAR® is a federally registered trademark of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EDGAR Online is not affiliated with or approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jean Donnelly, FinTech Sandbox, http://www.fintechsandbox.org, +1 (617) 596-1322, [email protected]
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