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Afterpay coughs up $1.5m over US loans

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
Afterpay has settled with a California financial services regulator over allegations it was offering illegal loans in the state without a licence. The settlement with the California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) will see the 'buy now pay later' ...

New ETF for ASX All Tech Index

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... Technology ETF (ATEC) is expected to list on March 5 investing in a diversified index of Australian tech companies including AfterPay, Xero, WiseTech Global, REA Group and Carsales.com. It will charge about 48bps per year. This makes it more expensive ...

All-tech index offers new opps in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... It's something to be excited about," he said. The index (XTX) goes live on Monday, February 24. Xero, Computershare and afterpay are the top three shares on launch.

All Tech Index launches down under

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... the ASX, valued at almost $115 billion. Xero leads the pack in the new tech index, followed soon by Computershare and Afterpay. "The All Tech Index recognises the critical mass of technology companies listed on ASX," Stevens said. "It provides investors ...

Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... global markets. Many who exercised patience between tweets and headlines throughout the year were very well rewarded." Afterpay was the most traded single stock by Saxo clients, followed by Fortescue Metals and BHP Group. ZipCo and Microsoft rounded ...

Afterpay slides in global fintech rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
Tech-darling Afterpay has suffered a slide in the ranking of the world's leading fintech innovators. The annual KPMG and H2 Ventures FINTECH100 list is a collaboration between the global consulting firm and Sydney-based venture capital investment ...

Client ethics the future of advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... consider what kind of companies their ethics would rule them out from working for. One adviser said she wouldn't work for Afterpay because she views it as a company that harms people's financial wellbeing - particularly young people and women.

Shorting doesn't have to be risky: Solaris

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... that are in its view mispriced relative to each other. The first example Martin used was WAAAX stocks (Wisetech, Appen, Afterpay, Altium and Xero). Solaris has gone long on Altium and shorted the other WAAAX stocks as a basket. Martin argued Altium has ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... in FY19: iron ore (BHP and Rio Tinto), gold (Newcrest Mining and Evolution Mining), information technology (Altium and Afterpay) and healthcare (CSL and Resmed). Out of the major Australian equity indices, the S&P/ASX 50 delivered the highest returns ...

AUSTRAC zeroes in on Afterpay

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
Tech-darling Afterpay is feeling the regulatory heat after AUSTRAC ordered an audit of the fintech's compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF) laws. AUSTRAC said an external auditor will examine Afterpay's governance ...