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Victorian government agency hunts for fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... early-stage startups to grow and create jobs." The selection panel includes Jasper, LaunchVic board director Aneetha de Silva, Afterpay chair Elana Rubin, Lighter Capital chief executive Melissa Widner and Continuity Capital Partners co-founder and managing ...

Citi appoints head of global asset managers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... advisory Tony Osmond said. "Just this year, Citi has raised over A$2 billion for Australian and NZ corporates, including Afterpay, Novonix and the Lynch Group, while also assisting companies and several government agencies raise more than A$24 billion ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
With consumers in the US now contributing the most to Afterpay's business, the BNPL provider has set in motion plans to list there as new research shows the economic impact of the service. Revealed in a quarterly update yesterday, Afterpay is working ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... better fault tolerance for critical cloud workloads. Current AWS customers include Deloitte, CBA, NAB, Atlassian, CSIRO, Afterpay and Australia Post. The new AWS Region aims to accelerate innovation agility and cost savings by leveraging the world's ...

ASIC sounds the alarm on buy-now-pay-later

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... outcomes across the diverse range of business models operating in the industry. The sector, which includes companies like AfterPay and ZipPay, has shown explosive growth since 2016. Many of its users are young ASIC found 60% are 18 to 34 years old. Two ...

Superhero sets eyes on managed accounts

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... totally free." The platform is backed by some of Australia's tech titans, including Zip Co co-founder Larry Diamond and Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar. The chair of Zip Co Philip Crutchfield also happens to be the chair of Superhero as well. Winters ...

Fintechs drive venture capital: KPMG

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... has led to investor and funding support to Zip who recently acquired QuadPay and China's Tencent buying shares in Afterpay. KPMG's global fintech co-leader Ian Pollari said: "COVID-19 will be a key driver for fintech investment heading into H2'20 ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... officer Wayne Baskin, the platform's backers include the likes of Zip Co founder and chief executive Larry Diamond, Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar, and Zip Co chair Philip Crutchfield. According to LinkedIn, the trading platform currently employs ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... to expand. Since the March 23 low, the ASX All Technology Index, which features the likes of buy-now-pay-later darling Afterpay, accounting software provider Xero and AI specialist Appen, has rallied more than 95%. The index which tracks healthcare companies ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... first three quarters of the financial year saw some reversal in the last quarter," Mercer said. "While growth stocks like Afterpay and Appen continued to outperform, previous laggards in the energy sector (such as Santos and Origin Energy) also staged ...