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Telstra flags ditching venture capital arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
Telstra's US$1 billion start-up incubator has rebranded to Titanium Ventures as the telco giant looks to ditch the venture capital space. Telstra Ventures, a subsidiary of Telstra founded in 2011, overnight announced it has rebranded to Titanium ...

Citi Australia appoints debt capital markets lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
Citi Australia has appointed a long-serving executive as head of debt capital markets for Australia and New Zealand. David Bailey, who is currently the head of cross border capital markets and is based in New York, will return to Australia to take up ...

Cbus recruits chief risk officer from Crown

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
Cbus has hired a new chief risk officer from Crown Resorts to replace Wade Martin. Martha Georgiou joins the $90 billion superannuation fund after finishing up as group executive general manager of compliance and regulatory affairs at Crown. Prior to ...

ASIC issues first stop order for crowd funding

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an interim stop order preventing Hirehood from offering securities under its crowd-sourced funding (CSF) offer document. The CSF was published on the VentureCrowd intermediary platform. ...

Prime FG eyes wealth management business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
Prime Financial Group (PFG) is set to acquire an unnamed firm that operates investment research and funds management services. PFG flagged that a confidential non-binding indicative offer has been made to the Melbourne-based firm. If the offer is successful ...

Active Super found guilty of greenwashing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Active Super has been found guilty of misleading the public with false claims about its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials. The profit-to-member fund, which is set to merge with Vision Super in March 2025, made claims on its website ...

Sequoia chief learns his fate at EGM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024
Sequoia Financial Group held an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) this week to consider a resolution to remove chief executive and managing director Garry Crole. Shareholders voted against removing Crole, securing 59.95% of the votes, with 40.05% ...

Hostplus rejigs Maritime Super insurance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
Hostplus has updated its insurance terms for its Maritime Super members who joined the fund last year. Hostplus said insured Maritime members will have access to improved terms and conditions thanks to its large and growing membership base, which allows ...

Block Earner dodges massive fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
The Federal Court has absolved Block Earner from paying a penalty for trading without a financial services licence, which ASIC believes should have been $350,000. While Judge Jackman determined that while Block Earner, which invested in cryptocurrency ...

Preqin launches new term intelligence tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
Preqin has announced the launch of a new tool named Term Intelligence, which introduces one of the largest searchable databases of Limited Partner Agreement (LPA) terms globally and enables enhanced private fund negotiations. Preqin said alternative ...