Whois & Analysis for intralinks.com

Intralinks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: IL), founded in 1996, is a global technology provider of inter-enterprise content management and collaboration solutions.

Its products serve the enterprise collaboration and strategic transaction markets, enablings the exchange, control, and management of information between organizations.

Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is an industry composed of companies that use new technology and innovation with available resources in order to compete in the marketplace of traditional financial institutions and intermediaries in the delivery of financial services.

Financial technology companies consist of both startups and established financial and technology companies trying to replace or enhance the usage of financial services of incumbent companies.

A security is a tradable financial asset.

The term commonly refers to any form of financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction.

In some jurisdictions the term specifically excludes financial instruments other than equities and fixed income instruments.

In some jurisdictions it includes some instruments that are close to equities and fixed income, e.g. equity warrants.

In some countries and/or languages the term "security" is commonly used in day-to-day parlance to mean any form of financial instrument, even though the underlying legal and regulatory regime may not have such a broad definition.

An alternative investment is an investment in asset classes other than stocks, bonds, and cash.

The term is a relatively loose one and includes tangible assets such as precious metals, art, wine, antiques, coins, or stamps and some financial assets such as real estate, commodities, private equity, distressed securities, hedge funds, carbon credits, venture capital, film production, financial derivatives, and cryptocurrencies.

Investments in real estate and forestry are also often termed alternative despite the ancient use of such real assets to enhance and preserve wealth.

In the last century, fancy color diamonds have emerged as an alternative investment class as well.

Alternative investments are to be contrasted with traditional investments.