During a recent trip to New York City, the financial capital of the world, the IMRE Financial Services Team met with several industry reporters for the benefit of our clients.
The meetings proved to be extremely valuable as we learned about upcoming editorial topics, shared ideas about potential story angles, and received feedback on ways to better position our clients as resources. Our team also took advantage of the opportunity to tour a few notable financial landmarks before meeting with the media.
While visiting the Museum of American Finance, we discovered a unique messenger bag used by our client, Wells Fargo, from the early 1900’s. Company messengers used the bag to safely carry gold, money and valuables entrusted to the bank and postal service.
This device is a broad tape machine and a universal stock ticker, originally invented by Edward Calahan of the American Telegraph Company in 1867.
Thomas Edison is actually credited for developing an improved version of the universal stock ticker in 1871,which had an alphanumeric printing speed of approximately one character per second.
Our Senior Account Executive, Gina Birdsall, is pictured here checking out the Bloomberg Terminal. Invented by Michael Bloomberg, the platform gathers and analyzes info on bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and mutual funds.
Alexander Hamilton: The principal architect of America’s free-market capitalist system.
According to the Museum of American Finance, “The Museum’s Alexander Hamilton Room was designed in the federalist style in 1927 to pay tribute to the Walton House, where the Bank of New York first conducted business in 1784. Visitors see documents signed by Hamilton, examples of his published works, and items such as medals and currency designed in his honor.”
We also made a brief stop at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and enjoyed their feature exhibit “Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History of Money.” The exhibit displays a collection of one million coins, bills and other forms of currency used worldwide spanning three millennia
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