Trade The News

What Trade The News does

Trade The News (legally TTN Operations Ireland Limited) is a privately-held financial markets intelligence provider founded in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland. It pioneered the audio news squawk category and operates a 24-hour live broadcasting platform staffed by professional analysts and CFAs who deliver real-time market-moving headlines across American, European, and Asian trading sessions. The core technology combines live audio squawk feeds, text headlines, economic calendars, and an interactive analyst Q&A capability (Ask The Newsdesk), supported by 10+ years of proprietary news databases that enable instant back-checking for accuracy.

The product portfolio includes four regional audio squawks (FOREX, US Equity, Asian, European), three add-on analytical tools (Ask The Newsdesk, EventWatch Daily Briefing, 13F Radar), and free market analysis content. Customers subscribe through Premium (audio plus text plus interactive) or Standard (text-only) monthly packages, with no contractual lock-in and a one-month risk-free trial. Target customers are institutional cash and equity derivative traders, sales traders and brokers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and special situation desks that rely on sub-second market intelligence for short-term and intra-day trading strategies. The company's explicit independence from any trading firm, brokerage, or trading-related ownership—enforced through analyst personal trading prohibitions—is positioned as its core differentiation in a market where the company claims over 80% of competitors have conflicts of interest.

The company distributes directly to professional traders via its website with a free trial funnel, supported by regional offices in New York, Toronto, São Paulo, Dublin (headquarters), London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Sydney. Revenue is generated entirely through recurring monthly subscriptions. The firm is GDPR-compliant, operates without disclosed external funding, and has shown incremental rather than transformational growth over its 28-year operating history.

Name

Trade The News

Legal name

TTN Operations Ireland Limited

Website

https://tradethenews.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Trade The News (TTN) is a Dublin-based, privately-held financial markets intelligence firm founded in 1998 that pioneered live audio news squawks for institutional traders, hedge funds, prop shops, and broker-dealers across global markets via subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Market Intelligence

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120)

akta.pro primary industry

Business, Financial & Trade News Publishers (MPAJADAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Journalism & News Intelligence Publishers (Indexes, Election/Market Data) (MPAJADAK), Digital Content & Media Subscriptions (CRAFAIAA)

Keywords

• Audio news squawk
• Real-time market intelligence
• Trading news subscription
• Financial market news
• Professional trading services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription News Service: Monthly subscription-based access to real-time market news squawk service. No contracts or sticky terms with one-month risk-free trial period. Cancellation requires 7 days written notice prior to membership anniversary.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Trade The News operates a real-time financial markets intelligence subscription service centered on live audio news squawks broadcast 24 hours a day by professional analysts covering American, European, and Asian trading sessions. Customers subscribe to regional audio squawk products (FOREX, US Equity, European, and Asian equities), supplemented by text headlines, market calendars, an interactive analyst Q&A capability, and proprietary databases supporting news verification. The service is sold on a monthly subscription basis (Premium or Standard packages) with a one-month risk-free trial and is targeted at institutional traders, sales traders, hedge funds, prop shops, and special situation desks.

Product overview

Trade The News operates as a real-time financial news and market intelligence platform built around live audio news squawks. The core offering consists of four regional audio squawk products (FOREX Squawk Box, US Equity Squawk, Asia Stock Squawk, European Squawk) that broadcast market-moving news 24 hours daily across American, European, and Asian trading sessions. The platform delivers news across equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities (FICC), covering events such as earnings reports, analyst calls, economic announcements, central bank decisions, mergers and acquisitions, and geopolitical developments. The Premium and Standard subscription packages provide varying levels of access (audio plus text vs. text-only), while interactive features including Ask The Newsdesk (live analyst Q&A), EventWatch Daily Briefing, and 13F Radar serve as supplementary tools. Free Market Analysis content is available for non-subscribers as an entry point to the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FOREX Squawk Box Real-time audio news squawk covering foreign exchange (currency) market developments including EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD and other currency pairs, for professional traders requiring live FICC market intelligence.
• US Equity Squawk Real-time audio news squawk covering US stock market news including earnings reports, analyst calls, block trades, insider activity, and market-moving corporate announcements, for institutional cash and equity derivative traders.
• European Squawk Real-time audio news squawk covering European equity markets including UK, Irish, French and other European stock market news, for professional traders active in European cash and equity derivative strategies.
• Asia Stock Squawk Real-time audio news squawk covering Asian equity markets including Japanese, Hong Kong, Australian and other Asia-Pacific stock market developments, for professional traders active in Asian cash and equity derivative strategies.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 80% of financial news sources have conflicts of interest (trading firm, brokerage affiliation, or unsupervised communication between brokerage and news desk)

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg: Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg News offer real-time audio squawks (BNE) integrated with data, analytics, and messaging. Closest large-scale incumbent competing for the same institutional trading audience TTN serves.
• Refinitiv (LSEG): Now part of London Stock Exchange Group, Refinitiv provides real-time news, analytics, and trading workflows through Eikon/Workspace. Overlaps with TTN in real-time financial news delivery to institutional traders.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: Provides financial news, research, and data products to institutional investors. Overlaps with TTN in delivering market intelligence and corporate event news to trading and investment professionals.

Direct peers

• Dow Jones Newswires: Provides real-time financial newswires and alerts for professional traders, including audio services and headline feeds. Direct competitor in the financial news squawk category with comparable institutional customer base.
• Briefing.com: Subscription-based real-time market intelligence and squawk services for active traders. Most direct US-headquartered competitor offering headline-driven news and intra-day commentary to professional and retail-active traders.
• Benzinga: Real-time financial news, audio squawks (Benzinga Pro), and headlines targeted at active traders. Competes with TTN on speed and breadth of US equity news delivery, though with a more retail-leaning audience mix.
• Need To Know News: Audio squawk service covering equities and futures markets for professional traders. Direct niche competitor to TTN's US Equity Squawk with similar real-time verbal market intelligence delivery.

Emerging players

• RavenPack: Provides AI-driven news analytics and sentiment data for quantitative and fundamental investors. Adjacent to TTN's news intelligence layer and competes for institutional buy-side budget allocated to alternative data.
• EarningsWhispers: Specializes in earnings-related date confirmations, whisper numbers, and corporate event timing — a narrower data product competing for the same event-driven trading desks TTN targets via EventWatch.
• Trading Central: Provides technical and fundamental research plus news analytics embedded into broker platforms. Adjacent competitor offering institutional-grade market intelligence and event-driven insights to trading desks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/trade_the_news
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/trade-the-news

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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