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July

In identifying inappropriate trading, the colourful culture of traders, is often included as one of the reason.

Markets owe it to themselves to fill in the black holes

Questions are being asked over bond market trading because market players no longer feel the incentive to police their own reputations among their own number.

  • Les Hosking
Ben Coles, head of energy transition  and Riley Vernon, Head of Australian commodities at Jarden.

Jarden pitches a new service for big emitters: carbon trading

The investment bank’s new carbon trading platform will complement an energy transition advisory team led by Matt Kean’s former chief of staff.

  • Aaron Weinman
It’s a tough time to be an underperforming company and trying to reignite investor enthusiasm.

Small caps’ wild EOFY ride exposes market’s dirty little secret

Monday’s list of worst performers looked like Friday’s best performers turned upside down. It was laughable. 

  • Anthony Macdonald

June

The $3.9 trillion super sector underpins the ASX.

How to feed super funds Australian shares while they’re hungry

It’s good to see someone think about the huge and growing pile of Australian superannuation money, and the need to give funds more ways to invest in public Australian equities.

  • Anthony Macdonald
The RBA has not concluded whether an eAUD will become a reality in Australia.

Bitcoin on the ASX opens investors to a world of pumpers and spruikers

But Binance’s regional boss Vishal Sacheendran is making a surprise call – in an interview, he says there needs to be more regulation, not less.

  • Anthony Macdonald
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Superannuation’s rise has changed Australia’s capital markets and capital account for good. It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

Digital world wants, real world needs: Chook’s next 50 years

The battle for physical world assets shifts to those things that will underpin the digital world in the next 50 years. It will be a bigger battle, and Chanticleer will be there to cover it.

  • Anthony Macdonald
June’s a tough month for poorly performed stocks. This June’s expected to be no different.

Dogs of the ASX in for a hard time

In case a softening economy, Nvidia rally and consumer pain didn’t make it hard enough to make money, attention has turned to tax loss selling. There are plenty of candidates this year.

  • Anthony Macdonald

May

Chief executive Dan Jowett took over Openmarkets in 2022.

Openmarkets test drives bid for Integrated Portfolio Solutions

The 14-year-old investment administration platform was put up for sale via Berkshire Global Advisors late last year.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

April

John Winters, CEO and co-founder, Superhero.

$2 trades: Superhero opens a new front in the broker fee war

Street Talk can reveal the online share trading platform will on Monday announce the most significant changes to its pricing since its launch in 2020.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

March

Kester Black founder Anna Ross.

Equity traps in the growing pool of share schemes

Anna Ross crowdfunded capital to get her beauty empire off the ground, but some small-time investors have become desperate to get their money back.

  • Patrick Durkin

February

CommSec sits under the lender’s business banking segment, which turned a $3.9 billion cash profit last financial year.

CommSec MD Richard Burns quits, CBA exec James Fowle to takeover

The managing director of the country’s largest stockbroker, Commonwealth Bank’s CommSec platform, has told the company that he will resign at the end of June.

  • Lucas Baird
Trading in CSR shares on Feb 21

C’est bizarre: CSR share trading post French approach raises eyebrows

CSR’s trading halt came through after the market had closed for the day, rendering it largely useless.

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  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Citadel CEO and founder Ken Griffin.

O’Kane who? Make way for Citadel’s $1.5b man

On a global stage, Macquarie’s $58 million man Nicholas O’Kane is the poor cousin to Citadel’s Sebastian Barrack.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

January

Day trading volumes are continuing to drop off after a surge in activity during the pandemic.

Retail traders are retreating from the ASX

Brokers have been tracking the force of retail traders since they burst onto the scene during the pandemic. But their impact appears to be waning.

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  • Jonathan Shapiro
Co-founder Matt Leibowitz (left) will be replaced as CEO of online broker Stake by Jon Howie.

Stake CEO Matt Leibowitz resigns

Matt Leibowitz, co-founder of online broker Stake, has resigned as chief executive after a seven-year tenure.

  • Jessica Sier
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Bitcoin ETFs line up for ASX listing

The SEC’s final approval signals the arrival of cryptocurrency as a mainstream asset class that can be recommended by financial advisers, industry observers said.

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  • Jessica Sier, James Eyers and Joanna Mather

November 2023

Simone Haslinger and Jonas Troeber, JPMorgan’s co-heads of equity capital markets.

Investment banks feast on $1b of block trades as floats loom

Brokers compiled a slew of block trades off the back of significant events for companies such as Whitehaven Coal, Origin Energy and Endeavour Group.

  • Aaron Weinman

October 2023

Convera rejects allegations that one of its executives bullied a former employee.

FX firm Convera says bullying claim ‘vague, misdirected’

Convera argued the allegations reflected ‘grievances on the part of the applicant that are variously vague, misdirected and irrelevant’.

  • Lucas Baird
Stake co-founders Dan Silver (left) and Matt Leibowitz.

Stake lobs bid for rival Selfwealth at 17.5¢ per share

Australia’s crowded online retail trading market is set for a shakeup. 

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Mr Jowett said the result and the ASIC fine had not delayed Openmarkets plan to list on US-based Nasdaq stock exchange.

Record ASIC fine won’t derail Openmarkets’ Nasdaq dream: CEO

Dan Jowett says the Sydney-based company is still powering towards a listing despite a $5.2 million loss.

  • Lucas Baird

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