News-Scraper

Streamlining Financial News Monitoring and Market Commentary Production

Background

For market analysts, traders, and content teams, keeping pace with the constant stream of financial and economic news is a daily challenge.
Leading financial outlets such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Economist update continuously throughout the day — making it easy to miss key developments or waste valuable time reviewing content already read.

The News-Scraper platform was developed to accelerate the production of daily market updates by simplifying the process of aggregating, reviewing, and summarizing financial market news.
It automates the monitoring of key sources, maintains historical archives, integrates economic calendars, and provides tools to create professional market summaries with minimal manual effort.

The Problem

In fast-moving markets, analysts and editors face several recurring issues:

• Information overload: Dozens of new articles are published hourly across multiple news outlets.
• Duplication of effort: Teams repeatedly check the same sites for updates or re-review previously read articles.
• Fragmented workflow: News gathering, analysis, and report creation typically occur in separate systems.
• Lack of context: Economic calendar events and industry developments are often tracked independently of daily news flow.

These inefficiencies slow down the preparation of internal market summaries and client communications — a major pain point for any financial institution or research team.

Our Solution

News-Scraper eliminates those bottlenecks by providing a unified, automated, and intelligent platform that:

• Continuously aggregates financial news from trusted sources.
• Highlights only newly published articles since the user’s last visit.
• Marks which articles have been read by each individual user.
• Integrates economic data and industry content into a single research interface.

This design ensures that users can immediately see what is new, what they have already covered, and what deserves attention — saving hours of manual review each day.

Key Features

1. News Aggregation

The platform automatically scrapes and updates articles from selected financial sources such as the Financial Times, Reuters, and The Economist, presenting only those published within the past 24 hours.
Users can:

• View all new content chronologically.
• Filter by source or category (e.g., markets, central banks, commodities).
• Mark notable articles for inclusion in daily briefings.

The system stores a full historical record of all scraped articles, creating a searchable archive that can be referenced at any time.

2. Efficient Presentation

All articles from a given publication are consolidated on a single page, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple website sections.
A hover-over preview feature displays article content instantly, allowing users to review key details without clicking through to external sites or opening multiple browser tabs.

These design choices enable analysts to quickly scan headlines, identify relevant material, and maintain situational awareness with minimal disruption.

3. Summary Generation

Selected articles can be flagged as “important” and compiled into a customizable daily market summary.
This list can be edited directly in the browser and exported to form the basis of internal morning notes or client email updates — significantly reducing preparation time.
Users can also generate personal watchlists or “favorites” lists, complete with notes and annotations for later reference.

4. Economic Calendar Integration

The platform automatically imports and updates a comprehensive economic events calendar, covering central bank meetings, employment reports, inflation releases, and other macroeconomic data.
Each entry includes:

• Consensus forecasts
• Actual results (as released)
• Links to relevant source data

By combining news flow and economic data, analysts can contextualize market reactions and identify storylines worth featuring in daily updates.

5. Industry Knowledge Base

Beyond daily news, News-Scraper maintains a curated repository of industry articles and research papers relevant to the Clearing and Prime Services businesses.
Each item includes an internal summary or note, allowing teams to build an evolving institutional knowledge base over time.

Additional Capabilities

• Historical Article Storage: A complete, searchable archive of all previously scraped articles, organized by source, topic, or keyword.
• Favorites & Notes: Save and annotate articles for future analysis or discussion.
• User-Level Read Tracking: Each user’s reading history is stored separately, allowing for individualized “new content” views.
• Alerts for Market Moves: Optional integration with market data feeds (e.g., FX, equities, commodities) sends alerts for significant price movements since prior closes (T-1 and T-2).

Copyright Compliance

News-Scraper is built to respect publisher copyrights and user subscription rights.
The system:

• Displays only publicly accessible headlines and metadata for paywalled sources.
• Allows users to authenticate with personal or institutional subscriptions (e.g., FT, Economist), ensuring full compliance when accessing restricted content.
• This model ensures all usage remains consistent with publishers’ terms while enabling professionals to centralize and organize their licensed content.

The Value Proposition

For Analysts and Content Teams

• Reduce time spent on daily research by consolidating all key news and data in one location.
• Never miss a development — new and unread content is clearly highlighted.
• Accelerate report production, turning a multi-hour process into a 15-minute workflow.
• For Institutions
• Enhance internal communication through shared summaries and consistent news coverage.
• Improve market awareness across teams, maintaining an institutional archive of important developments.
• Increase efficiency and reduce reliance on manual news checks and browser tabs.

Conclusion

News-Scraper delivers a faster, smarter, and more compliant way to consume, manage, and repurpose financial market news.
By integrating real-time aggregation, economic event tracking, and summary generation into a single interface, it enables professionals to focus on analysis and insight — not information gathering.

For financial institutions, analysts, and market commentators, News-Scraper transforms the daily challenge of information overload into an efficient, data-driven workflow that produces higher-quality content in a fraction of the time.