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Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... than doubled to US$23 billion since it hit the US$10 billion mark just three years ago. Australia-born chief executive of Silicon Valley-based blockchain outfit Wyre, Michael Dunworth, said for financial advisers who are trying to figure out how the ...

Global VC fund opens Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... Australia and have already invested in 20 Aussie start-ups. Partnering with Melbourne and LaunchVic helps us bring a slice of Silicon Valley to Australia through our start-up, investor, and corporate programs."

AirTree hires former Accel vice president

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... Australia to hunt for startup opportunities. Sydney born Cameron will relocate home in February after four years with the Silicon Valley giant, overseeing several of its fintech, cybersecurity and online marketplace companies. In a statement Cameron ...

State Street partners with blockchain startup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... provider in order to offer more transparent, timely and auditable means of reporting. The investment manager has engaged Silicon Valley-based PeerNova to develop a program via its Cuneiform platform aimed at enhancing asset and transaction-based tracking ...

Aussie agtech the focus for US fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... fund will connect Australian agribusinesses with leading global developments in agtech and the investment expertise of Silicon Valley. Fellow Finistere Ventures partner Dr Spencer Maughan said: "Australia has a very high standard of scientific research ...

QIC equities head joins Silicon Valley firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
QIC's head of equities has left the group to join a Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist. Rob Wood was head of equities at QIC from 2009 to 2015; prior to that, he was head of world equities at Suncorp. He has also held ...

Advisers under the Periscope

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... San Franciso-based StartUp Adviser Richard Arnold and Veeroll.com founder Gideon Shalwick will be around to inject some Silicon Valley vibe. The summit will be held in Brisbane at the Royal International Convention Conference (Brisbane Showground) from ...

Custody: Revolution or evolution?

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... conceivably offer chief risk officer outsourcing. They will use technology differently. State Street has an office in Silicon Valley. The pipe work needs upgrading but custodians are going to be data innovators," he said. On the other side, arguing that ...

NZ Super Fund takes big stake in LanzaTech

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... ($A64.92 million) values the company at about $US400 million and makes the super fund the second-biggest shareholder behind Silicon Valley-based Khosla Ventures with 42%. One of Lanzatech's original investors was Stephen Tindall's KIWI fund, which owns ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... listened for an hour to the CEO of the world's leading Bitcoin exchange in the premises of his venture capital sponsor in Silicon Valley. "We've got to open our minds to it, and in my mind, that starts with the importance of the people in the key roles ...