About us

NewsBites Finance was launched in 2014 as the fresh face of News Bites Pty Ltd (2001) and provides innovative, cutting-edge reports covering every relevant market and security to information providers and investors around the world. We are one of the few primary financial information providers worldwide.

NewsBites Finance collects data actively on 47,500 Stocks from 95 Stock Exchanges globally. Up to 116 Exchanges may be covered by special request. It also collects data on Institutional activity, American and Global Depositary Receipts, Bonds, Funds, SEC Notices, Press and Corporate releases, Patents, Commodities, Currencies, Private Companies and People in Business.

Our users include retail information businesses, institutional and retail investors, regulators, investor relations specialists, legal firms, financial advisers and tax authorities, corporate advisers, accounting groups and investment analysts.

Since 2004 we have been working in Joint Venture with Jupiter International Pty Ltd (trading as BuySellSignals), which powers the natural-language auto-generated content we offer, fielding a team of some 90 specialists in financial analysis, IT database management and processing, research and administration.

The Joint Venture assigns responsibility for planning, editing and marketing the articles primarily to NewsBites Finance and the collection, processing and generation of the content to BuySellSignals. NewsBites Finance and BuySellSignals collaborate closely on designing and producing content for each title or source agreed with global aggregator clients.

Our Leadership Team

Michael Walshe

Executive Chairman

NewsBites Finance chairman Michael F.W. Walshe has spent two decades in publishing and knowledge services in both Australia and Europe and two decades in online media. Having trained and practiced as a Chartered Architect in London, he developed a European-based business providing research to major institutions before founding News Bites Pty Ltd in Australia in 2001 with European investment partners. He co-founded NewsBites Finance with News Bites’ CEO Howard Belcher for launch in 2014, developing the Joint Venture’s global information cover in close collaboration with Howard and Anil.

Michael is based in Europe.

Howard Belcher

Chief Executive Officer

Howard has 40 years’ experience in the Australian financial sector. He has worked in finance journalism, stockbroking, investment and securities research, venture capital and business consulting, both within the small and micro-cap sectors and as a director of several ASX-listed companies. He is a co-founder of NewsBites Finance, which develops and distributes the global stock market information for professional and institutional investors generated with joint venture partner BuySellSignals.

Howard and Anil are co-authors of Top World Stocks – 140 Global ‘Baggers’.

Anil Bakaya

CEO BuySellSignals

BuySellSignals is owned by Jupiter International Pty Ltd, a Melbourne-based company established in 1983. BuySellSignals, a wholesale producer of global financial market news, research and data, has its main office in India where it employs financial and data analysts, accountants, IT programmers and database specialists. Since the birth of the Joint Venture with News Bites, BuySellSignals has grown from an end of day research provider to a real-time content generator with coverage of over 47,000 stocks worldwide daily. It has also gone beyond equities to cover equity-related instruments such as Exchange Traded Funds, Mutual Funds and Options, fixed income securities (Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds and Sovereign Bonds), commodities and currencies, private companies and business executives.

Anil and Howard are co-authors of Top World Stocks – 140 Global ‘Baggers’.