At the recent Norway FinTech Festival, Morningstar and Highsoft came together to deliver a joint presentation exploring how financial organizations can meet rising demands for data-driven insights by combining real-time data and cutting-edge visualization.
The talk, titled “Connecting Data”, showcased how the partnership between these two companies supports faster development cycles, more informed decision-making, and clearer, more interactive storytelling in financial products. Both companies bring deep expertise from their respective areas—Morningstar with its rich global dataset and APIs, and Highcharts with its widely adopted JavaScript data visualization tools.
Why this matters now
The financial sector is undergoing major shifts. While the rest of the digital world has embraced real-time data and dynamic storytelling, many financial services organizations are still relying on outdated, static visuals. This gap is becoming more visible as customer expectations rise.
Morningstar and Highcharts argue that the time to modernize is now—and that integration between data and visualization is no longer optional but essential.
Trends driving the need for change
Several global trends and customer behaviors are pushing financial platforms to rethink how they present information:
- The evolving investor: Today’s investors are more hands-on, more mobile, and expect insights on demand.
- The evolving portfolio: Portfolios are more complex, diversified, and personalized than ever before.
- Rising expectations for transparency and clarity: Customers want easy-to-understand insights and the ability to explore data in real time.
- A need for automation and scalability: Firms need tools that can reduce development time and scale across products and use cases.
Morningstar Direct Web Services
One of the highlights of the presentation was Morningstar’s Direct Web Services—a suite of APIs that includes:
- Investment research and portfolio analytics
- Financial planning tools
- Data, calculations, and reporting modules
These APIs are already used by over 500 organizations globally, generating $47M in revenue. They allow clients to integrate Morningstar’s trusted data directly into digital platforms with speed and flexibility.
Highcharts’ role
Highsoft, the company behind Highcharts, brings powerful visualization capabilities to the partnership. Their charting tools are used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies and are especially well suited for financial dashboards, performance tracking, and interactive reporting. Highcharts helps teams create responsive, real-time visualizations with minimal development overhead.
Some of the key features financial organizations are leveraging include:
- Real-time charting with live data feeds
- Seamless API integration with back-end data services
- Interactive visual storytelling (zoom, filter, drill-down)
- Accessibility and mobile optimization
- Broad framework support (.NET, React, Python, and more)
Meeting shared customer needs
Together, Morningstar and Highcharts address a range of customer demands:
- Faster development and automated data workflows
- Dynamic, data-rich storytelling for end users
- Real-time, API-powered charting across digital channels
- Scalable and maintainable solutions for long-term platform growth
- Confidence in decision-making, supported by clear, actionable data
The result: Lower time-to-market, higher product quality
By combining Morningstar’s high-quality data and APIs with Highcharts’ flexible visualization library, fintech firms can dramatically reduce the time and effort required to launch new features. Instead of building visualization tools or data integrations from scratch, they can plug into this joint solution and start delivering value faster.
Looking ahead
This partnership signals a broader shift in how financial data is delivered and consumed. As end users grow more sophisticated and demands for transparency rise, companies that invest in better data communication will stand out.
The message from Morningstar and Highcharts at the Norway FinTech Festival was clear: the future of financial user experience lies in combining trusted data with best-in-class visualization—and the tools to do it are already here.
Ready to explore what’s possible?
If you’re interested in learning more about how Morningstar’s data and Highcharts’ visualization tools can work together in your product, we’d love to hear from you.
Whether you’re building new dashboards, modernizing your reports, or launching a fully data-driven fintech platform, our teams are here to help.
Get in touch now:
- Click here to email Key Account Manager Maria Molland directly.
- Get in touch through the Partner Data License form and we’ll follow up with next steps.
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