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Application for quotation of securities - EML

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Dec 24, 2024
  • 9 pages

Final Director's Interest Notice

Final Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 24, 2024
  • 2 pages

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Leadership Changes

Company Administration - Other, CEO/Managing Director – Appointment Resignation

  • Dec 23, 2024
  • 2 pages

Application for quotation of securities - EML

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 9 pages

Application for quotation of securities - EML

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Dec 6, 2024
  • 9 pages

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August

Prepaid gift cards company EML Payments has announced the departure of chairman Luke Bortoli.

EML Payments chairman resigns after board clash over credit card use

Luke Bortoli, also the chief financial officer at lithium hopeful Pilbara Minerals, said he was pleased to leave the prepaid gift card group in “great shape”.

  • Max Mason and Jemima Whyte
Luke Bortili.

EML Payments chairman’s corporate credit card ignites boardroom clash

The prepaid cards business said it had undertaken an “independent review of expenses incurred by directors and management” but decided against taking action.

  • Jemima Whyte

April

Leibler-advised Alta Fox Capital was crucial to EML Payments’ outgoing chair Peter Martin’s departure.

US activist Alta Fox dumps EML stake; Barrenjoey on the trade

Sources said Barrenjoey was on the tools after market close on Thursday, shifting Alta Fox’s 8.14 per cent stake. 

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

November 2023

EML Payments chairman Peter Martin’s re-election was voted down at a fiery AGM.

EML Payments plunges on strategic review

Shares in EML dived after the company reveals its troubled Irish unit is burning cash.

  • Jonathan Shapiro

April 2023

Luke Bortoli has a full dance card as a professional company director.

Activist turns EML on its head in just five months

It’s astonishing how quickly an activist investor with barely a 10 per cent stake can turn a company’s strategy, board and management team on its head. 

  • Anthony Macdonald
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Emma Shand is gone after less than 10 months in the top job.

EML ousts CEO, appoints Barrenjoey to sell ‘all or part’ of business

Investors say they support the decision to launch a strategic review, hoping bankers would be able to strike deals to offload divisions and unlock value.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
EML Payments chief executive Emma Shand.

The weird and wonderful world of EML Payments

EML has a piercing migraine’s worth of anti-money laundering compliance issues and a cast from the bar scene in Star Wars.

  • Joe Aston

February 2023

Emma Shand, CEO of EML Payments, has provided details of its recovery plan to investors on Wednesday.

EML shares plunge again on profit miss amid board shake-up

The fintech reshuffled its board after reporting a $130 million loss and big impairments as it continues to battle regulators in Europe.

  • James Eyers

November 2022

Jeremy Leibler is seen in the legal fraternity as a rising star and a savvy lawyer.

US activist Alta Fox in EML’s henhouse, gunslinger in tow

For all its willingness to start proxy fights, Alta Fox has rarely been spotted Down Under. It’s good then it’s got the gun singling Leibler, who’s honed the craft of stalking ASX-listed boards at names like Myer Holdings and Humm Group. 

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
EML Payments chairman Peter Martin’s re-election was voted down at a fiery AGM.

EML chairman booted, shares fly on hopes a buyer will be back

EML investors finally had a reason to celebrate as chairman Peter Martin’s re-election was voted down at a fiery AGM. But will his departure spark a new round of M&A action that shareholders blamed him for foiling?

  • Ayesha de Kretser
EML Payments chairman Peter Martin

Angry shareholders take out EML chairman

Shares in the troubled company rose by a quarter after Peter Martin narrowly failed to be re-elected to the board.

  • Aaron Patrick
EML Payments chief executive Emma Shand.

Eyes on EML Payments chair on AGM day

It would have been a sleepless night for EML Payments chair Peter Martin on Thursday.

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
EML Payments chief executive Emma Shand.

A world-class CEO at business cliches

Emma Shand’s plan to save troubled gift card provider EML Payments is hard to understand because of the words she uses to explain it.

  • Aaron Patrick

October 2022

EML Payments chief executive Emma Shand is dealing with another crisis.

EML slides amid UK regulatory concerns

Monday was another horror show for EML shareholders as it revealed the UK’s FCA had similar concerns to its Irish counterpart.

  • Emma Rapaport
Former EML chief executive Tom Cregan

Ex-EML Payments CEO now a strategic adviser

He’s a heavy metal fan, drummer, kung fu practitioner, investor ‘and ... I forgot, former CEO’.

  • Michael Roddan
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September 2022

Qantas chief Alan Joyce pocketed $2.17 million and more than 600,000 performance share rights this year.

I paid $30 for a corporate code of conduct. That’s good value

Why do companies that boast about high ethical principles find it so hard to follow them?

  • Aaron Patrick

August 2022

Emma Shand, CEO of EML Payments: shares fell 14 per cent as the company exited a trading halt.

EML hit by another fraud, shares down 11pc

Embattled payments company EML hit by fraud in recently acquired business Sentenial.

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  • Ayesha de Kretser
Emma Shand, CEO EML Payments

EML says it will buy back shares, undertake strategic review

EML Payments shares up more than 10 per cent on buyback, better than expected revenue growth.

  • Ayesha de Kretser

July 2022

EML Payments offers prepaid payments cards.

EML hit again as Irish regulator finds gaps

EML suffers another setback as new chief executive Emma Shand prepares to update the market on strategic direction next month.

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  • Ayesha de Kretser
EML Payments offers prepaid payments cards.

EML Payments keeps bankers close as swoopers circle

The sharks are circling bombed out EML Payments – but much to their chagrin the company’s board hasn’t been all that keen to take them seriously. 

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

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