Case Study: CityFALCON achieves real-time global delivery of crowd-curated financial news with Microsoft Azure CDN

Innovative cloud service makes global financial news accessible to everyone

CityFALCON, a 12-person London fintech startup, aggregates and personalizes real-time financial news for retail investors but struggled with the scale and speed needed to process global sources cost‑effectively. To support its open‑source stack and rapidly growing data volumes, CityFALCON joined Microsoft Accelerator and moved to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including Microsoft Azure CDN for content delivery.

Using Microsoft Azure CDN and other Azure services (VMs, Storage, Load Balancer and Virtual Network) integrated with Cloud66, CityFALCON migrated in four hours and now processes more than 5 million stories a day in milliseconds. The Microsoft Azure CDN-enabled solution delivered global scalability and low latency, helping CityFALCON onboard thousands of users monthly, provide crowd‑curated real‑time alerts to retail investors, and gain industry recognition.

CityFALCON

Ruzbeh Bacha

Founder and Chief Executive Officer