About Infront

Infront provides financial information and trading solutions for global financial players on both the buy and sell side.

Infront’s flagship product, The Online Trader, has experienced enormous growth in the last few years and is now a dominant player in the Nordic markets. With a network infrastructure enhanced for larger volumes, expanded market data coverage and a committed reseller network, The Online Trader user base is growing rapidly 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 is an independent, privately owned company with offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen. With more than 75 employees Infront is one of the strongest players in the Nordic markets. Infront owns Direct News agency in Sweden and Denmark in order to provide the best services to financial professionals.

Infront is owned by the 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. Infront is AAA rated by Dun & Bradstreet.

Background

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.