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4 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie

Web traffic data—how many people visit a company’s website, and how those figures change over time—is being seen as a leading indicator of sales and corporate revenues that can be interpreted in near-real time ahead of a company’s quarterly financial reports. Two companies who would agree with that are Bloomberg and Similarweb—a provider of such web traffic data—who today announced a deal for Bloomberg to carry the latter’s data on its terminal within its ALTD alternative data segment. The new web

4 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Nyela Graham

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page On May 17, 1792, a total of 24 brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement, a document that established the first stock exchange on Wall Street. According to financial legend, the agreement was signed under a buttonwood tree, at what is now 68 Wall Street. It contained only two rules: the brokers were to deal only with each other, and they would charge clients a commission of 0.25% per transaction.

5 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Digital assets hedge fund Firinne Capital, like most startup funds, had a choice to make: should it build or buy its portfolio and risk management systems? Opting for autonomy, it chose the more difficult path. “Given our collective quant and technology backgrounds, we architected and built our own version 1 of our PMS,” Jim Hwang, chief operating officer of Firinne Capital, says. The firm launched the Firinne Liquid Digital Assets Fund in June 2022, offering broad market exposure to digital assets

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology. To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can click on the download button in the player above. You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie

In the 1980s radio show, TV show and novel The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish is a tiny creature that—when inserted deep into one’s ear canal—translates any intergalactic language into your mother tongue. That’s a good thing if, like the hero Arthur Dent, your planet has just been destroyed and you’re traveling to places and meeting alien beings you didn’t know existed and need to communicate (but a bad thing if the first of those is a Vogon poet. Oh, read the books!). The