Finam

What Finam does

Finam is a privately-held Russian diversified financial services group founded in 1994, operating across brokerage, asset management, banking, forex, and educational services. The company serves Russian retail and professional investors, qualified high-net-worth clients, and small business clients, with a geographic footprint of 70+ representative offices across Russia and digital access to Russian, US, Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese, and Canadian markets. Its core product is the FinamTrade web and mobile trading platform, supplemented by third-party terminals (MetaTrader 5, QUIK, TRANSAQ, Sterling Trader Pro) for professional traders, plus a Finam API for algorithmic trading and an MCP-based integration with ChatGPT for AI-driven account interaction.

The technology stack includes proprietary AI tools such as AI-Screener for predictive stock analysis, Finam Insights for generative market signals, Spread Insight for cross-exchange arbitrage anomaly detection, and an algorithmic trading community platform (Comon.ru / Finam Arena). The group is structured around wholly-owned subsidiaries: AO FINAM Investment Company (broker), Finam Management (asset management), Finam Bank (banking, license No. 2799), Finam Forex (FX dealer), and Comon.ru (auto-following). Revenue is generated through brokerage commissions, premium/VIP subscriptions, banking fees, asset management fees, forex spreads, and trading education — a multi-stream model that creates cross-sell between trading, banking, and advised wealth services. Qualified investors receive access to pre-IPO opportunities (Anthropic, Crusoe, Databricks, Gupshup), structured notes, and replacement bonds.

Finam's go-to-market combines a self-service product-led motion (FinamTrade, mobile apps, virtual portfolios) with a sales-led motion for qualified investors through exclusive.finam.ru and premium.finam.ru, plus a physical office network and agent referral program for onboarding in regions without direct representation. Marketing is driven through a large financial news portal (finam.ru), YouTube, Telegram, VK, RuTube, and Yandex Zen. The company is operating normally as of 2026, with active product launches throughout 2025–2026 and no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or external equity backing.

Name

Finam

Legal name

АО «Инвестиционная компания «ФИНАМ»

Website

https://finam.ru

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Finam is a privately-held Russian diversified financial services group offering brokerage, asset management, banking, forex, and trading education to retail investors, professional traders, qualified high-net-worth clients, and small businesses across Russia and selected international markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Brokerage

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), Depository Credit Intermediation (5221), Open-End Investment Funds (525910)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200), Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Financial Management & Budgeting (PFM) (FSAGAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Embedded Deposit Accounts & Digital Wallet Infrastructure (FSAGALAE)

Keywords

• Retail brokerage services
• Securities trading
• Asset management
• Algorithmic trading
• Investment banking

Headquarters

HQ city

Moscow

HQ country

Russia

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Brokerage Commissions: Commission-based revenue from securities trading on Russian and international exchanges. The company offers access to Russian markets (MOEX), US markets, and Asian markets (Hong Kong, China, Japan).
2. Premium Services: Subscription and service fees from premium offerings including personal broker services, exclusive investment products, and VIP advisory services through exclusive.finam.ru and premium.finam.ru
3. Banking Services: Revenue from Finam Bank including deposits, credit cards, cashback, currency exchange, and business banking services
4. Asset Management: Revenue from management of mutual funds and alternative investment funds through subsidiary Finam Management
5. Forex Trading: Revenue from forex trading services through FinamFX
6. Education Services: Revenue from trading courses, webinars, and educational programs through education.finam.ru

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Finam is a Russian diversified financial services group that provides brokerage, asset management, banking, and forex services through the proprietary FinamTrade platform and 70+ physical offices. The company offers access to Russian and international markets (MOEX, US, Hong Kong, China, Japan) for trading stocks, bonds, futures, options, currencies, and cryptocurrencies, supplemented by AI-powered analytics, algorithmic trading, direct market access, educational programs, and exclusive products such as pre-IPO investments and structured notes for qualified investors.

Product overview

Finam is a comprehensive Russian financial services ecosystem offering an integrated platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering centers on the FinamTrade web trading platform and the Finam AI-Screener analytical suite, supplemented by the Finam API for algorithmic trading, Spread Insight for arbitrage monitoring, and Finam Insights for AI-generated market signals. Users can trade across Russian and international markets (stocks, bonds, futures, options, currencies, crypto) through multiple access channels including web, mobile apps, and professional terminals (MetaTrader 5, QUIK, TRANSAQ, Sterling Trader Pro). The ecosystem is further extended by auto-sequencing services, educational programs (Finam Academy), banking through Finam Bank, and asset management via Finam Management Company. Exclusive offerings for qualified investors include IPO and pre-IPO access, structured notes, replacement bonds, and virtual portfolios for strategy testing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FinamTrade: Multi-platform trading terminal for stocks, bonds, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies on Russian and international exchanges
• Finam AI-Screener
• Finam Auto-following (Автоследование)
• Spread Insight
• Finam API
• Academy of Trading (Академия трейдинга)
• Finam Insights (Финам Инсайты)

Products and services

• FinamTrade Trading Platform

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability9 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MetaQuotes (MetaTrader)coreTechnology or IntegrationFinam provides access to MetaTrader 5 trading platform, a widely-used third-party trading terminal for forex and CFD trading. This integration allows Finam clients to use MT5 for their trading activities.
• Arqa (QUIK)coreTechnology or IntegrationFinam offers access to QUIK trading terminal, a professional trading platform widely used in Russia for securities trading. This provides institutional-grade trading tools to Finam clients.
• NAEX (TRANSAQ)coreTechnology or IntegrationFinam provides access to TRANSAQ trading platform, a Russian-developed professional trading terminal for securities trading. Available in standard and high-speed versions.
• Lite-InvestminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEducational partnership with Lite-Invest providing a course on Moscow Exchange trading for day trading in a proprietary trading company.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SberCIB: Corporate and investment banking arm of Sberbank. Relevant adjacency for Finam's pre-IPO, structured notes, and qualified-investor product offerings where Russian bulge-bracket brokers compete.
• Interactive Brokers: Global electronic broker with access to Russian and international markets. Comparable on professional/algo-trader segment and international multi-asset offering, but operates at vastly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• Sberbank Investments: Brokerage arm of Russia's largest state-owned bank. Massive deposit-funded customer base and brand recognition; competes head-on with Finam in retail investing, mutual funds, and qualified-investor products.
• VTB Broker: Brokerage arm of VTB, another major Russian state-owned bank. Overlaps with Finam across securities trading, asset management, and institutional services, with significantly greater capital backing.

Direct peers

• Tinkoff Investments (T-Bank Investments): Russia's largest digital-first retail brokerage, now under T-Bank (formerly Tinkoff). Directly competes with Finam across retail trading, mobile platforms, and robo/auto-following, with a much larger customer base and integrated banking.
• Freedom Holding Corp (Freedom Finance): CIS-focused brokerage and financial services group with operations across Russia, Kazakhstan, and other former-Soviet markets. Comparable multi-country brokerage model with publicly listed parent (FRHC).
• Alfa-Capital (Альфа-Капитал): Asset management and brokerage arm of Alfa-Bank group. Direct competitor in Russian mutual funds, brokerage, and qualified-investor products, leveraging Alfa-Bank's deposit and credit customer base.
• Aton (Атон): Russian investment group focused on brokerage, asset management, and corporate finance. Comparable to Finam in serving both retail and qualified investors with research-driven offerings.
• BCS Broker (БКС Брокер): Long-established Russian brokerage and financial group offering brokerage, asset management, and banking. Closely comparable to Finam in scale, multi-product model, and target retail/professional segments.

Regional players

• KIT Finance (КИТ Финанс): Russian investment group with brokerage, asset management, and corporate finance. Similar mid-sized multi-product positioning to Finam within the Russian market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/finam_blog
• YouTubeyoutube.com/FinamWebinar
• Facebookfacebook.com/finam.ru

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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