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Australian large law firms: Partner numbers shrink as clients cut back
June 27th, 2016
This year’s Australian Financial Review Law Partnership survey has revealed spiralling partnership numbers. Among the large law firms, Norton Rose Fulbright had the highest proportion of partner turnover, followed by Ashurst and Gadens. NRF lost 22 partners, replenished by ...
Bitcoin to be sold in Australian newsstands over the counter
June 3rd, 2016
Australians will soon be able to buy some Bitcoin along with the newspaper and a pack of gum. Launching Thursday, a new initiative will help people buy Bitcoin with cash at around 1,200 newsagents nationally, Fairfax Media reported. The ...
The CIO of Australian law firm Allens bets on Australian legal sector AI boom
June 2nd, 2016
The chief information officer at Australian law firm Allens believes that the rise of AI at large law firms in the country is fast approaching, but is sceptical that such technology will replace human jobs. In an interview withiTnews, ...
Australian stock market becomes haven for tech startups
April 11th, 2016
The Asia-Pacific region has been picking up some of the slack we’ve been encountering lately within the technology merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape. While US capital markets are tightening, tech M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region reached a three-year ...
British and Australian financial regulators sign agreement to support innovative businesses
March 23rd, 2016
Under a new world-first agreement, innovative fintech companies in Australia and the United Kingdom will have more support from financial regulators as they attempt to enter the others’ market. As a result of the agreement signed today, the UK’s Financial ...
ASIC: IronFX corrects disclosure about Australian regulation and counterparty arrangements
December 17th, 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued an announcement to inform that: Following concerns raised by ASIC, retail OTC derivative issuer, IronFX Global Australia Pty Ltd (IronFX Australia) has taken steps to remove references from an associated website ...
Commonwealth Bank Increases support for Australian leadership in Quantum Computing
December 9th, 2015
Commonwealth Bank has provided in-principle commitment for an additional $10 million to support Australian researchers who are well advanced in their efforts to build the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer in Sydney. CBA welcomes the Australian Government’s decision to ...
ASIC: Australian Investment Exchange Limited pays $130,000
December 9th, 2015
Australian Investment Exchange Limited (AUSIEX) has paid a penalty of $130,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP). The penalty was for AUSIEX: failing to have in place organisational and technical ...
Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius
December 9th, 2015
Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody. The 44-year-old Australian, Skyping into ...
Shell’s Takeover of BG Group Clears Australian Hurdle
November 20th, 2015
Tie-Up’s success hangs on approval from China and Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board Australia’s antitrust regulator won’t stand in the way of Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s takeover of BG Group PLC, brushing aside its earlier concerns that the tie-up could reduce the supply of natural ...
