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August 2024

Bankers will test issuing certificates of deposit on an R3 Corda blockchain operated by ASIC-licensed Imperium Markets.

This ‘Bloomberg killer’, backed by Microsoft, might succeed

There are a number of so-called ‘Bloomberg killers’ already littering the financial technology graveyard. Can this one win over users?

  • Michael Bow

June 2024

AirTrunk’s data centre in Sydney’s northern suburbs is one of four sites in its Australian portfolio, and one of nine locations globally.

AirTrunk’s ‘competitive’ auction has huge $15b payday in reach

AirTrunk’s investors had no way of knowing just how good their timing was when they invested in 2020.

  • Anthony Macdonald

May 2024

Consumers are unable to exercise choice or meaningful control over how their data is shared and used. says ACCC consumer commissioner, Catriona Lowe.

Nearly 46 hours a month to read all privacy policies: study

Australians would spend nearly 46 hours a month reading all the privacy policies they encounter, according to a new report into data firms.

  • Tom Burton

April 2024

AI is fuelling demand for cloud computing and data centres.

NextDC feeds the ducks while they’re hungry

The data centre owner has played the capital markets game superbly to be on the cusp of the top-50 stocks. To stay there, it has to deliver.

  • Anthony Macdonald

February 2024

AirTrunk is keeping infrastructure investors and their advisers busy, ahead of a likely auction.

Macquarie eyes monster pay day from AirTrunk deal

Australia’s millionaire’s factory is on the cusp of a big home run. To get there, it needs another heavyweight to make a big bet on the future of AI.

  • Anthony Macdonald
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August 2023

Good privacy practice is a pre-condition for innovations that rely on personal information, says Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk.

Companies ripping off our personal data: survey

A major survey has revealed Australians feel helpless to stop breaches of their privacy and back legislative reform to get businesses and government to do more.

  • Tom Burton

May 2023

The Optus hack was a high-profile data breach that demonstrates the need for regulations to catch up.

‘Consent fatigue’: Banks warn of overreach in protecting data privacy

Consumers complain their privacy is unnecessarily breached. Businesses warn that proposed reforms could make things worse. A national digital ID may be the answer. But when?

  • Jennifer Hewett

March 2022

Despite their importance across the economy, the firms remain private partnerships reticent to release information beyond data they are legally obliged to reveal.

Big four consulting firm data tracker

Find out how many partners and staff work at Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC, where their fees now come from – and how much partners earn. Here’s everything you need to know.

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  • Edmund Tadros and Hannah Wootton

July 2020

Josh Frydenberg’s major May speech to the National Press Club would normally have been the day after a budget that is now lost.

The COVID-19 economic update in numbers

We're tracking the Australian economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

  • Edmund Tadros and Les Hewitt
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The numbers behind Victoria's second wave

The latest data on the coronavirus pandemic outbreak in Australia show how the virus got away in Victoria.

  • Edmund Tadros

June 2020

COVID-19: Tracking the economic recovery

We're tracking the Australian economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

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  • Edmund Tadros and Les Hewitt

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