6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (295+ words) In the past week, the federal government launched a new financial innovation strategy, the Reserve Bank called for submissions on tokenisation and most of the big banks urged regulators to act early on AI and autonomous commerce. The industry’s increasingly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (199+ words) If the billable hour could speak, it might offer — in the words of Mark Twain — that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Over the years, the preferred unit of measurement for law firms has...dehumanising and tyrannical, but…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) Blackbird’s $1.05 billion sixth venture capital fund. The VC firm appears to be building its overseas profile and diversifying its investor base on the back of early bets on Canva, Zoox, SafetyCulture...Stanley Investment Management, with $2.8 trillion in assets, Adams Street…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (210+ words) continues to circle a blockbuster IPO. As we covered in this morning’s Standup, fresh reports from the US suggest it could match or beat SpaceX’s record-busting float. But beyond the eye-popping economics — and persistent questions about whether the spending boom…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (176+ words) sobering — albeit not entirely surprising — reading for the data centre industry. Less than a quarter (23%) of the 1,562 people surveyed said they would support a data centre in their area, while 44% were opposed. That puts data centres only slightly ahead of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (194+ words) Online consulting platform Expert360 is in the final stages of a sale to IPO hopeful Swipejobs in a deal that appears to leave its earliest investors...documents viewed by Capital Brief reveal Expert 360 is in the process of selling itself to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (292+ words) If investors in Geoff Wilson’s second largest listed investment company, WAM Capital, were...seeking some reassurance after shares cratered last week in response to its worst ever annual portfolio performance, they may have done well to avoid the investing veteran’s…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (172+ words) Once again, the story of the day is AI. But even by the standards of the current era, this one is a little odd. As we covered in this morning’s Standup, pretraining researcher Jacob...lives”. For anyone who pays any…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (293+ words) after a better-than-expected earnings season and the benchmark ASX 200 index resetting a record high...last month, many active fund managers were caught on the wrong side of a trend building beneath the surface of the market last financial year. Among…...