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David Ross is a Sydney-based journalist at The Australian. He previously worked at the European Parliament and as a freelance journalist, writing for many publications including Myanmar Business Today where he was an Australian correspondent. He has a Masters in Journalism from The University of Melbourne.

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Grocon collapseCompanies

15/02/2018: Daniel Grollo from Grocon, at the company's headquarters in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Daniel Grollo pitches sweetener for collapsed Grocon

High-stakes Grocon creditors’ meeting is adjourned after Daniel Grollo proposes a new offer to revive the collapsed property major.

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insuranceFinancial Services

Pandemic claims battle heats up

As local court battles rage over business interruption insurance, QBE has already paid out $632m to UK claimants, with more to come.

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UnderpaymentsFinancial Services

NAB repays staff, other banks under scrutiny

As NAB returns another $40m in back pay to staff, a union says underpayments may extend to the sector’s other big players.

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Economics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos November 20, 2020: Senator Jane Hume speaks to the media along side Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during a press conference in Melbourne, Victoria. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Daniel Pockett

Business registers combine in major shake-up

The federal government has announced details on a new business registry that will see 31 different systems and 7 entry points amalgamated into one platform.

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exclusivePolitics

Banned hotel quarantine security boss ‘never left’

A key figure behind troubled Unified Security quietly resumed ownership last year despite being forced out by NSW authorities.

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Overseas growthFinancial Services

**FILE IMAGE** Zip signage is seen on a storefront in Sydney, Tuesday, October 22, 2019. By the end of December 2019, 1.8 million customers had an active Zip account that allows them buy now and pay later without a credit card at 20,875 merchants, including Amazon Australia. (AAP Image/Derek Rose) NO ARCHIVING

Zip surges 17pct on new payments boom

Zip Co reports strong growth overseas, buoying revenue and Splitit inks a deal to gain access to massive overseas markets.

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PaymentsFinancial Services

China giants slip Austrac’s net

Two of China’s biggest payment providers, also used by thousands in Australia, can bypass anti-money laundering rules and transfer funds virtually undetected.

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Financing collapseBusiness

Lex Greensill of Greensill Capital, London 1 December 2020- Picture By Annabel Moeller

ASIC probes Greensill collapse

The corporate cop was caught on the hop after Greensill’s collapse in March, revealing it had been in discussion with international regulators over the firm’s demise.

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Nation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 08: A general view of activity as Hotel Quarantine workers are seen outside the Intercontinental Hotel on April 08, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. International passenger flights resume flying into Melbourne from Thursday, with Victoria introducing new hotel quarantine measures. International flights were banned in mid-February after Victoria went into a snap five-day lockdown following a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport hotel, which saw the more virulent UK strain of the virus leak from the quarantine system and into the community. International arrivals will be capped at 800 in the first week, with the cap extending to 100 as more hotels become operational. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Auditor-General gets ‘please explain’ on hotel quarantine

The Victorian opposition has written to the state’s Auditor General on why Unified Security was awarded contracts for the state’s hotel quarantine scheme despite being linked to a string of failed businesses.

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InsuranceFinancial Services

QBE Insurance Group Chairman Marty Becker (centre) speaks from the podium whilst next to QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Jann Skinner (far left), QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Rolf Tolle (second from left) QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Sir Brian Pomeroy (third from left), QBE Insurance Group Chief Executive Officer(CEO) Patrick Regan (fourth from left), QBE Insurance Group's Deputy Chairman John M. Green (fifth from right), QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Mike Wilkins (fourth from right), QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Stephen Fitzgerald (third from right), QBE Insurance Group's Independent non-executive director Fred Eppinger (second from right) and QBE Insurance Group's Non-executive director Kathy Lisson (far right) at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders of QBE Insurance Group at the Westin Sydney in Sydney, Thursday, May 9, 2019. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

QBE goes it alone with Covid test case

Major Australian insurer QBE is set to test its own policy wording in the federal court.

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