Infront: trading workflows, market-data costs and Assetmax

Infront provides market information and investment workflow software for brokers, trading desks and wealth-management businesses. Its brokerage offering combines data, execution interfaces and operational tools across desktop, browser and mobile channels, with managed and broker-agnostic service options. The useful distinction is between the professional’s trading workspace, the broker’s order workflow, the interface presented to end clients and the portfolio-management record. Those components can be combined, but they solve different operating needs and require different account and data permissions.[2]

Professional Terminal’s trading guide makes the account context visible. The Trading window organises portfolios, orders and trades; a portfolio can be chosen as the default or selected when entering an order. The available order types depend on the exchange, asset class and connected trading service. The guide also describes broker-provided algorithms and the ability to split parent orders into child orders across accounts or brokers. A screen offering an order function therefore needs to be evaluated with the actual connected service, rather than by assuming every displayed function is available for every account.[5]

Investor WebTrader is presented as a browser application without a separate installation or plugin. Its modules can combine market data, news, charts, order routing and portfolio information, with branding and layout adapted for the broker. This is a client-distribution choice as well as a trading-screen choice: a broker can decide which functions its customers see while maintaining its own account relationship. A requirements document should distinguish the public information experience from functions that depend on an authenticated client account.[3]

Data Manager documentation describes identifier-based requests, including ISIN and market identifiers, with controls over the selected fields and instrument set. That is a data-retrieval interface, distinct from a broker connection used to place an order. The distinction is useful when specifying a custom application: a research notebook may need snapshots and reference data, while a dealing workflow also needs account authentication, order states and execution messages.[8]

Infront’s FAQ gives concrete examples of order-workflow automation. Limit Order Management can hold orders for market opening or release them after monitored reference prices meet configured conditions. A quotation engine can support RFQs using reference prices, size and client-profile parameters, with dealer adjustment or rejection available. Basket workflows can combine manually entered client orders with configured bulk-release rules. The implementation question is which transitions are automatic and which require a dealer’s intervention, including the return of execution confirmations to the originating system.[4]

Infront publishes some market-data and exchange charges, while the broader service depends on the chosen modules, news and data packages. Its pricing guidance describes charges per user per month, excluding VAT, with professional versus non-professional classification affecting access and prices. Some entries require a separate click agreement or a direct agreement with the data supplier. The professional exchange-fee table additionally excludes local Infront administration fees. Published data charges should therefore be read as identifiable components of the bill.[10][11]

The 2026 change notice says Spotlight real-time access ceased to be included in the existing packages from 1 October and required its own subscription. Data activation is also a workflow: Infront’s pricing guidance routes additions through My Profile, Web Admin or an order form, with activation pending until required agreements are accepted. The terminal or mobile application may need to be restarted after approval. A purchase request and a visible symbol are consequently not sufficient evidence that a user’s real-time entitlement is active.[12][10]

Trading access has a separate onboarding step from data access. The Professional Terminal guide says the Trading Gateway login requires additional credentials supplied by the broker. These credentials connect the user to the broker’s trading service. A useful acceptance sequence is to verify the correct trading identity and portfolio, then follow an authorised order through acknowledgement, execution or cancellation and the receiving records. Data entitlement alone does not establish that the same user can trade the displayed instrument.[6]

Infront’s undated Raymond James Investment Services case describes a rules engine handling defined, repeatable processes and directing orders to selected destinations, with dealer expertise retained where needed. The operational design is more useful than the case’s headline productivity claim: decide which order classes can follow a rule, which destinations are eligible and when a dealer must take over. The case provides a named example of a brokerage putting workflow automation around its dealing operation. It does not establish a delivery duration or a transferable productivity result for another firm.[17]

The current FAQ says existing system connections are assessed during onboarding and workflow mappings are established for the client. That supports a practical implementation inventory: originating systems, routing destinations, account identifiers, confirmation paths and downstream records. A connection’s business purpose should be agreed alongside its technical availability, especially where several custodians or brokers serve the same investment manager.[4]

Infront publishes support routes by product rather than one universal service window. Professional Terminal and related web products, Data Manager, Portfolio Manager and Assetmax have different addresses or hours. The contact directory labels the hours in CET/CEST; the relevant product route should accompany the affected user, module and workflow in an incident report.[13]

Trading capacity is linked to the account and connected broker. The terminal guide describes cash and trading power, short-selling and credit limits defined for the trading account, alongside user settings. The software presents and works within that account context; the broker supplies the trading relationship and gateway credentials. Infront’s product descriptions establish trading and data technology, not a universal permission for every user, instrument or execution venue.[5][6]

Data suppliers can impose company-level permissions as well as a user subscription. Infront’s 2026 notice states that, from 1 July, access to Euronext index-constituent data requires a direct company agreement and Euronext approval. That requirement concerns the specified dataset, rather than all Euronext trading access.[12]

The current imprint identifies Infront AS, based at Munkedamsveien 45 in Oslo, Norway, with registry number 979 806 787. That corporate registration identifies the website operator; it is not presented here as a financial-services licence. Product and market-data agreements establish the purchased scope and the relevant supplier terms for each customer.[14]

The group’s annual reports establish two important historical names. Infront completed its acquisition of vwd Group on 17 July 2019, adding established market-data and investment-workflow businesses. On 30 September 2022, Infront AS acquired all of Assetmax AG, a software business serving independent wealth managers and smaller banks. These transactions explain why vwd and Assetmax materials can be relevant to the present provider family. Their historical acquisition dates should remain distinct from the dates of current product and connectivity announcements.[15][16]

Operator

Infront AS

Service scope

Professional market data, order and execution workflows, broker client interfaces and investment-management software including Assetmax.

Customer types

Brokerages; Professional trading desks; Banks; Wealth managers; Asset managers

Delivery

Hosted; API; Managed service

Pricing publication

Public and quoted pricing

Headquarters

Oslo, Norway

Platforms

Infront Professional Terminal; Infront OMS; Investor WebTrader; Infront Data Manager; Assetmax

Integrations

FIX order workflows; Data Manager request-response API; Professional Terminal Python and R access; OpenWealth Order Placement API

Pricing scope

Published data and exchange fees coexist with configurable product and service scope. Professional-user examples and 2026 effective dates are set out in the pricing section.

Implementation

Assess existing connections and map order and data workflows. Broker-issued Trading Gateway credentials and the required data agreements are separate activation steps.

Support

Product-specific email and telephone routes, with published CET/CEST windows for Professional Terminal, Data Manager, Portfolio Manager and Assetmax.

Permissions and regulatory scope

Trading interfaces and investment-data technology. Broker account permissions, Trading Gateway credentials and supplier-specific market-data agreements define usable access.

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Order and trade export has a specific desktop dependency. Professional Terminal documentation lists manual exports including Excel, XML, HTML and text, while scheduled automatic exports require the centrally enabled Advanced: Order Entry - Export Module. Automatic output uses the selected portfolio, and the Trading window must remain open. The user configures the schedule and frequency; Export Now creates a one-time output, while Start Job starts the scheduled task. An operations team relying on those files should make the selected portfolio, running window and active schedule part of its daily checks. This documented workflow should not be mistaken for an unattended server-side feed merely because it writes files automatically.[7]