CityFALCON

What is CityFALCON?

CityFALCON is a financial and business intelligence platform operated by the British company City Falcon Limited; it uses machine learning, natural language processing, and its own classification systems to organize news articles, research reports, corporate documents, and related analyses. Users can track information by securities, companies, asset classes, industries, regions, individuals, and events.

The core value of this product lies in filtering information related to what interests users from a wide range of sources, and providing supplementary signals such as relevance, emotional aspects, and summaries. It is not a securities trading platform, nor does it offer personalized investment advice to users.

Product format and current status

The content and objects that are covered

• News on finance, business, economics, and politics, along with related videos and research materials.
• Information on listings and private company filings, regulatory documents, RNS data, and company registration details.
• Investor relations materials, including performance documents, presentations, press releases, and corporate reports.
• Documents on ESG, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility.
• Insider trading, changes in institutional holdings, and certain basic financial indicators.
• Stocks, commodities, forex, indices, ETFs, crypto assets, private companies, individuals, industries, topics, events, and regions.

The number of channels is indicated in various official pages as 2,000+, 13,000+ and 15,000+, and it may refer to APIs, the entire website, applications, or specific sets of content. Users should not consider one of these figures as a universal figure that covers all channels and authorization levels.

Personalized watch viewing and searching

• Users can search by code, company name, asset category, theme, industry, and region, and save the items of interest.
• The system checks the watchlist to combine the securities and topics that are of interest to the user, and the subsequent content is organized based on relevance and preferences.
• Searching can take into account filtering criteria such as language, channel, time, relevance, and content type.
• Some pages allow news to be overlaid on interactive price charts, helping to view the relationship between events and price fluctuations over time.
• The simultaneous appearance of news and price changes does not mean that the platform has established a causal relationship; price changes can be caused by a variety of events and market factors.

CityFALCON Score correlation rating

• CityFALCON Score uses machine learning to estimate the degree of relevance of a piece of content to a particular company, security, individual, or topic.
• Scores can be used to place the more useful reports at the top and to reduce noise that results solely from matching keywords.
• The API allows stories to be filtered by lowest score; whether specific parameters are available depends on the package.
• A high degree of relevance simply indicates that the content is more related to the search query; it does not mean that the information is accurate, important, or of any commercial value.

Emotion analysis and trends

• The platform can determine positive, negative, or neutral emotional signals for individual stories and entities.
• Physical emotions take into account multiple signals related to the same object, and users can observe the changes across different time periods.
• The trend feature is used to identify topics with an abnormally high level of content activity, and it is suitable for monitoring increases in event activity and market interest.
• Emotion models may misinterpret irony, negations, complex financial expressions, and multilingual contexts, and therefore cannot be directly converted into buy/sell orders.

Grouping of similar reports and key headlines

• Similar story grouping combines reports that are reproduced repeatedly or are highly similar, and selects representative content from them.
• Key Headlines condenses a large number of related reports into a few key points, making it convenient to quickly take in the main topics.
• Removing duplicates and creating summaries can save time, but they may also hide differences among various sources in terms of facts, timing, or perspectives.
• When conducting due diligence, one should examine the original reports, regulatory documents, and company materials, rather than relying solely on automated summaries.

Translation, Language, and Push Notifications

• The platform claims to be able to process financial and business content in over 50 languages, either through text or voice input.
• Some packages offer the ability to translate foreign-language content into English, making them suitable for monitoring local reports.
• Users can set personalized push notifications for the topics they are interested in, and choose the topics and times at which they wish to receive them.
• Translation may alter financial terms, numerical units, and legal wording; important information should be checked in the original text or reviewed by a professional.

Company registration and due diligence

• Users can include company filings, investor relations information, insider trading data, as well as ESG materials and news within the same research workflow.
• When studying private companies, the platform provides information on company registration, shareholders, documents, and relevant market data.
• Regulatory documents and corporate materials are closer to the original facts than second-hand reports, but it is still necessary to check the date of submission, version, and applicable jurisdiction.
• The platform does not guarantee that the content is complete, accurate, or up-to-date; legal, credit, and investment decisions should be made independently by qualified professionals.

Personal user workflow

1. Register an account, select your location, and choose your preferred language and content preferences.
2. Search for stocks, companies, commodities, forex, indices, crypto assets, industries, or regions.
3. Add the objects that require continuous tracking to the watchlist, and set the frequency and timing of notifications.
4. Filter the information stream using relevance, time, channel, language, and emotion.
5. First, examine the key headlines and groups of similar stories, then review the original reports, filings, and investor relations documents.
6. Compare the news with price charts and note the timing of events, but do not equate simultaneous occurrence with causation.
7. Before taking any trading, investment, or compliance actions, conduct a review using independent market data and authoritative documents.

Individual subscription price

The individual prices are listed on the US App Store; they may vary in other countries, through web channels, or depending on the currency used. The public website does not show in detail the differences between the various features available for Silver and Gold plans, so it is necessary to check these details on the app’s subscription management page before making a purchase.

Subscriptions, trials, and refunds

• Subscriptions are automatically renewed at the selected interval, and App Store requires cancellation at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Silver may offer a trial period, with charges applied after the trial ends; the Gold plan takes effect upon confirmation, and the actual rules are as specified on the settlement page.
• The trial period can be canceled without any final fees, but opting for a paid plan may result in the unused portion of the trial period becoming invalid.
• The terms allow for the exercise of the legal right to cancellation within 14 days after subscription confirmation, with a full refund.
• Except for statutory rights, defective content, and qualifying major package changes, refunds are generally not provided for the current period; neither is any refund given for unused time in the case of downgrades or voluntary termination.
• Platforms, regions, and payment processors can lead to price differences, and purchases from app stores are also subject to the rules of those specific stores.

What do business APIs offer?

The financial news API does not provide real-time prices for stocks, cryptocurrency assets, commodities, etc. The presence of price charts in the application does not mean that the API package includes market quotes that can be redistributed.

Prices for commercial APIs

The API page also offers quarterly switching options; the annual pricing is calculated on a monthly basis but the fee for the entire year is settled in one go, with taxes being charged separately. The packages are further constrained by factors such as the company’s revenue, financing scale, search scope, response time, and content licensing – it is not sufficient to consider only the number of calls made.

Students, teachers, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations can apply for a discount of up to 50%, but eligibility must be verified and the discount is not granted automatically. The prices for discounts, data licenses, and historical datasets are subject to the written quotes provided.

API licensing and technical restrictions

• Business packages allow the use of data and its derived results for generating revenue within the limits set by the license, while lower-tier packages come with limits on corporate income and financing options.
• The default license permits the display of content to users on one’s own website or application, but generally does not allow it to be resold or redistributed through APIs, RSS, XML, or similar methods.
• Different channels may require delivery delays ranging from milliseconds to several minutes, and it is not possible to ensure that all content arrives at the same time.
• The API has limits on the number of calls per hour and per month, and no streaming WebSocket service is currently provided by the official team.
• The complete historical data spans from January 1, 2018; the search period for lower-tier packages is usually one month.
• Developers should verify caching, attribution, full-text display, paywalls, deletion requests, and third-party copyright requirements before going live.

Financial MCP

• CityFALCON MCP is designed for AI assistants and agent workflows, providing real-time news, sentiment data, corporate filings, and information related to investor relations.
• It can also provide information on intelligent combinations as well as the relevance of companies to various industries, thereby assisting the model in conducting searches focused on the user’s interests.
• MCP is a model-oriented access layer for APIs; it is not the large language model itself, nor does it guarantee that the outputs will constitute investment advice.
• The public page indicates that the pricing for MCP is based on the API scheme; the individual fixed prices and free usage quotas have not yet been made public.
• Agent automation should limit the scope of queries, record requests and responses, and require manual approval before carrying out any financial actions.

Mobile apps and platforms

The user interface of iOS apps is in English, but their content and translations are available in multiple languages. The prices, versions, and compatibility information shown in the store vary depending on the region and any updates released.

Privacy and data processing

• The platform may collect names, email addresses, location data, browser information, operating system details, pages visited, time stamps, IP addresses, and information about the internet service provider.
• Third-party services are used for hosting, payment processing, email, analysis, and infrastructure; data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area.
• Users can manage their information in their account, and can request its deletion through the identity verification method associated with that account.
• Cookies are used for logging in, saving preferences, and optimizing services; disabling them may result in the unavailability of certain functions.
• News emails may contain tracking pixels, which are used to count the time they are opened and the number of times links are clicked.
• The iOS privacy disclosures include contact information linked to identity, search history, user identifiers and product interactions, as well as unlinked diagnostic data.
• Payments are processed by a third party; the terms state that CityFALCON does not store bank card details or transaction information directly.

Copyright, commercial, and financial risks

• The Personal and Premium services are intended for personal, non-commercial use or for limited internal business purposes; accounts cannot be shared.
• It is prohibited to scrape websites, avoid payment, use automation in abusive ways, or copy and redistribute content without permission.
• Commercial use of APIs is subject to the relevant contracts and licensing terms; content behind paywalls may require additional authorization.
• The content, emotions, ratings, declarations, and metrics are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or truthful; they should be verified against the original disclosures and independent data.
• CityFALCON is not a broker, dealer, or investment advisor, and it is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.
• No information regarding securities, assets, portfolios, or strategies constitutes appropriate advice tailored to an individual.

API, SDK, and open-source status

• CityFALCON provides REST-style development documentation, authentication tokens, and commercial APIs; however, the specific endpoints and response fields are determined by the chosen package.
• It provides an MCP access layer, which is suitable for connecting financial content to AI workflows that support this protocol.
• No official public SDK or verifiable official GitHub product repository was found.
• CityFALCON is a closed-source hosting service; the source code of its product is not made available under an open license. The availability of APIs does not mean that the data or the platform itself are open source.

Suitable for users and scenarios

• Retail investors: Monitor news, filings, and corporate materials by portfolio and on a scheduled basis.
• Researchers: Conduct research by combining multilingual news, emotions, trends, and original company documents.
• Wealth Management and Institutional Teams: Integrate relevant content and analysis into internal information processes.
• Brokers and fintech: They use APIs to display content that is within the scope of their licenses in their own products.
• AI development team: Uses MCP to provide real-time financial context for chatbots and agents.
• It is not suitable for users who wish to use single emotion scores, summaries, or news rankings as automatic trading signals.

Advantages and limitations

Summary

CityFALCON is suitable for individuals and organizations that need to quickly locate relevant information among a large volume of financial news, corporate filings, and investor relations materials. Its features such as relevance scoring, sentiment analysis, duplication removal, summarization, data visualization, API access, and MCP support a multi-layered workflow that spans from reading the content to its integration into various products.

Before use, it is necessary to select the appropriate option based on the different licenses associated with individual subscriptions, commercial APIs, and historical data; at the same time, one should check the prices for different regions, as well as the rules regarding automatic renewal and refunds. Any investment or automated decision-making should be based on the original disclosures, independent market information, and compliance procedures, rather than relying solely on machine-generated scores or summaries.