About AFX News Ltd.

AFX News Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomson Financial, the most complete source for integrated information and technology applications in the global financial services industry.

It is one of the world's leading financial news agencies, which claims to provide real-time business and financial news in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. They also claim to have13 bureaux including their headquarters in London and and staff of over 5.000 journalists.

Quality of News

The company’s news cover the whole world’s problems with focus on Europe. They are updated several times each day and do cover vital issues of the day.
Though the company claims to provide news in several languages, it was impossible to find any news in other languages than English on the website. Probably, thay provide such news to paid members.

Another strange thing is that you cannot navigate the news which followed before the latest ones, but this is actually the problem of navigation.

Apart from News

The company offers several additional services.
Firstly, it offers a variety of professinal products, the description of which can be found in the “Professionsl Products” section. They are sorted by regions and interests. There is “AFX International ProFeed”, “AFX UK ProFeed”, “AFX Equitynext ProFeed” and etc. AFX International ProFeed, for example, provides up to 1000 real-time news items per working day and up to 200 real-time news items on Sundays, daily and weekly calendars, "At a glance" outlooks and some other extra features.
There is also a list of the so-called “Focus Products”. They are divided by region or interest as well as the previous set of products. So, there is AFX International Focus, FX Equitynext Focus and so on. AFX International Focus offers 400-600 time-delayed news items per work day and up to 150 time-delayed news items on Sundays, ratings, forecasts, economic indicators and etc. The only problem is that no prices are mentioned on the website, you should email the company representatives if you want to learn more about these offers.

Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments

The design is nice, but there are problems with navigation, which were stated above.
The website has versions in English, Spanish, German and French languages. There is no advertisement at all.

Advantages

• Fresh news
• The company seems to be respectful

Disadvantages

• The wide variety of services the company claims to have is not free, as far as could be judged
• Problems with navigation.